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Wall fall down

Who’s to blame? Indebted Americans? Alan Greenspan? Slack credit rating agencies? Greedy and overpaid chief executives?

Greenspan says investors concerned about SA

Investors have concerns about South Africa, former Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan told a conference in Sandton on Tuesday.

Obama blasts McCain on economy

Democratic hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday dismissed Republican White House candidate John McCain’s economic plan as an insult, which left homeowners to face a mortgage crunch…

Clinton targets economy as anger roils Democratic race

Hillary Clinton on Monday pitched a plan to stop a mortgage crisis degenerating into a full-blown recession as new vitriol spilled over in her Democratic White House struggle…

Economist predicts R7,86 a dollar in 2010

There is potential for the rand to tend to be weaker due to the current-account deficit, but more than anything the currency’s fortunes will depend on the strength of the global…

Fidel Castro in official video: ‘Here I am’

Fidel Castro looked alert and healthier during an hour-long interview taped and aired on Cuban television on Friday, responding to rumours of his death with a defiant ”here I…

Alan Greenspan criticises Bush in new book

Former Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan, in a memoir to be released on Monday, criticised President George Bush and congressional Republicans for abandoning fiscal…