In Europe, it seems unthinkable that the head of Deutsche Bank would ever become the finance minister of Germany. It is less likely since the financial debacle of 2008 that any British bank boss...
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- Jun 18, 2013
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In recent days, tens of thousands of mainlanders have signed a petition to the US government's public website, We The People, calling on the Obama administration to intervene in the two-decade-old...
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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has lamented that he did not leave investment bank Goldman Sachs to go to Washington to espouse government intervention in the financial markets.
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Co-operation is vital in life
An inter-class football competition was held last month and my class won the gold medal. But we learned a much more important thing that day: co-...
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