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BBC Business, 05.01.09 17:02 UTC

Thatcher's economics adviser dies

Ex-prime minister Margaret Thatcher's controversial economics adviser, Sir Alan Walters, has died, aged 82.

Times Online Business, 05.01.09 16:01 UTC

Sir Alan Walters, Thatcher's economic guru, dies aged 82

Sir Alan Walters, the monetary theorist who was knighted for his services as Margaret Thatcher's economics guru but ultimately helped to hasten her political demise, has died at the age of 82. Sir ...

Newsweek World News, 02.01.09 19:03 UTC

How To Fix Globalization

A broader array of nations needs to unite around finance, energy and the environment.

BusinessWeek, 30.12.08 21:32 UTC

Macedonia's Controversial New Labor Law

The government says new workplace rules bring the Balkan country in line with European free market norms. But employees fret they're getting the shaft

BusinessWeek, 30.12.08 05:02 UTC

For Big Oil, a Day of Reckoning

Posted by: Steve LeVine on December 28 Most of us are elated with gasoline prices, especially those driving to see relatives. We are down on the Chesapeake shore, and filled up the mini-van for $1.49 ...

guardian.co.uk, 26.12.08 14:31 UTC

Guinea president Lansana Conté buried as military coup leaders consolidate control

. Guinea was burying its long-serving authoritarian president, Lansana Conté, todayas the group of miltary officers that staged a coup in the aftermath of his death attempted to consolidate its ...

Telegraph, 25.12.08 15:33 UTC

Dead Sea to receive water from Red Sea to save it from drying up

The Dead Sea could be saved from drying up under a groundbreaking plan to flood millions of gallons of seawater in from the Red Sea more than 110 miles away.