David Blanchflower, former monetary policy committee member of the Bank of England, has told media outlets that he believes interest rates will remain below 1% for at least another five years. This is good news for people with debt, but bad news for savers. However, Lord Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England […]
Why Africa must cancel Economic Agreements, Political and Military with France? Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
1888PressRelease – Africa can become a continent of the future, prosperous and children need no longer take the risk of crossing the Mediterranean to be the sole bread-winner for many families in the continent. This phenomenon is all the more distressing that one third perished at sea, and another one third are treated inhumanely in […]
The Difference a Day Does Not Make: LeBron’s Decision to Come Home
NE Ohio, especially the Cleveland-Akron area, held their collective breath for ten days while the King-LeBron James-made his free agency decision. And then on July 11 millions of people let out that collective sigh of relief when LeBron announced his decision in what will now be known as “The Letter.” There are many things we […]
Rushing Toward MD’s Primary
By Barry Rascovar WITH TWO WEEKS to go till Maryland’s June 24 primary for governor, here’s where we stand in the all-important Democratic race. (All-important because Republicans don’t count in most statewide Maryland elections due to the Democrats’ huge lead in registered voters.) The TV debates, all three of them, are over. So is the one […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Red Herring
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” One of the key items […]
Is A Second Revolution Brewing in Libya?
By Fozia Mohamed On February 15, 2011, two days before the scheduled ‘Day of Anger’, Libyan women relatives of the prisoners of Abu Salim correction center, staged one of their usual protests in Benghazi to demand answers to the disappearance and/or death of their loved ones in this infamous Muammar Gaddafi prison. The notorious prison […]