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Peter Godwin on Robert Mugabe's terror
Friday, May. 06, 2011 9:37AM EDT
The author of The Fear talks about how the President of Zimbabwe uses political terror to stay in power.
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Jorge Castañeda on drugs, Mexico and Canada
Wednesday, May. 04, 2011 3:45PM EDT
The former Mexican foreign minister talks about the economic potential of Mexico amidst its drug war.
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Europe can overcome currency 'stumble'
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:45PM EDT
The former EU Commissioner for Trade tells the Globe's Sonia Verma that Europe has achieved too much over the past 60 years to throw it away because of a currency crisis. The economic union can weather the storm though to do so will involve some pain.
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European integration has failed to deliver
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:45PM EDT
The Harvard professor tells The Globe's Sonia Verma that economically, Europe has never been able to properly integrate vastly divergent nations into anything remotely uniform
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Abandoning the Euro would cause colossal pain
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:23PM EDT
The British Lord and former EU commissioner for trade tells The Globe's Sonia Verma that the European union was flawed in implementation but not in principle
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He predicted the Euro crisis, but he'd rather fix it than gloat
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:08PM EDT
The Harvard professor tells the Globe's Sonia Verma that the conditions that dragged the world into the Great Depression in 1931 are upon us again, and it is imperative for people on both sides to get the Eurozone crisis fixed.
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Video: John Ralston Saul on the state of global press freedom
Friday, May. 04, 2012 3:26PM EDT
The noted academic and presidnet of PEN International discusses the current climate for Press Freedoms around the wold with the Globe's Marina Jimenez
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One-on-one with Howard Lutnick and Edie Lutnick
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 1:39PM EST
The Lutnicks on charities and the lessons to be taken from the 9/11 tragedy
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Healing a company deeply wounded by 9/11
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 12:46PM EST
Financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees to the terrorist attacks. CEO Howard Lutnick and his sister, Edie Lutnick, on a commitment to remembering them and rebuilding their organization
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The six killer apps of Western civilization
Friday, Dec. 09, 2011 12:29PM EST
Historian Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and The Rest, explains how six ideas – competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, the consumer society, and the work ethic – ensured Western predominance for so long.
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Western civilization stands on a cliff edge
Friday, Dec. 09, 2011 12:21PM EST
Historian Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and The Rest, believes that after half a millennium, Western predominance is clearly ending – and explains why, judging from history, we should expect it to collapse suddenly and dramatically.
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Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs all broke the law
Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 12:26PM EST
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, author of The Price of Civilization, explains why the U.S. political system is broken and talks about the reasoning behind the Occupy Wall St. movement.
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Future generations can fix America
Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 12:25PM EST
According to economist Jeffrey Sachs, author of The Price of Civilization, America can fix itself politically - and the young generation, who don't view government cynically, will do just that.
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Lawrence Summers on the Euro's survival
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 11:27AM EST
The former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard president tells the Globe's Brian Milner, that the future of the Euro will rest heavily on what European politicians do next
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Occupiers have legitimate grievances: Summers
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 11:04AM EST
The real question, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary tells the Globe's Brian Milner, is to figure out who to take the constructive aspects of the movement and use them to help repair the American economy.
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Krugman on why Occupy movement matters
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 10:59AM EST
The noted economist and New York Times columnist says the Wall Street protests have a voice to those in American society who feel unfairly treated.
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Larry Summers makes case for stimulus spending
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 8:02AM EST
The former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard president says that continued fiscal intervention will allow those with money to invest in the economy and pull the U.S. out of its economic slump.
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Paul Krugman wants Bernanke to be bold
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 7:58AM EST
The noted economist and New York Times columnist explains to the Globe's Brian Milner, that the U.S. Federal Reserve underestimated the size and scope of the U.S. economic downturn and needs to take radical measures to fix it.
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Paul Krugman discusses the Keystone Pipeline
Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 8:26PM EST
Video Archives (originally published No. 14, 2011): The noted economist and New York Times columnist calls the Keystone Pipeline a 'seriously dubious project' and says President Barack Obama was right in delaying it.
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Larry Summers explains why the U.S. will bounce back
Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 6:40PM EST
The former Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard President said that Americans have the strength, innovation and drive to overcome global economic forces.
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Paul Krugman explains why the U.S. slump will be long
Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 6:37PM EST
The noted economist and New York Times columnist says that the U.S. is guilty of making the same mistakes over and over again
