Debt negotiations going down to the wire
July 31st, 2011
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Young men who were only recently shooting at each other are now doing push-ups side by side in a boot camp. But in Ivory Coast’s far west, armed fighters still attack and steal from the population, almost 700,000 of whom are too afraid to return home.
As President Alassane Ouattara meets with President Barack Obama on […]
Invoking the Arab Spring, the Palestinian president on Wednesday urged his people to take to the streets for massive rallies in support of his government’s bid to get the U.N. to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
The call by President Mahmoud Abbas for peaceful, “popular resistance” throughout the West Bank was likely to fuel Israeli concerns […]
The roller-coaster debate over raising the nation’s debt limit has forced the White House to explain away, brush aside or even ignore declarations by President Barack Obama and aides that no longer served much purpose in the unpredictable negotiations.
First, the White House wanted a congressional vote separated from spending cuts. Now the administration likes them […]
Jeff Timmons has spent about $5,000 to fix up a guest bathroom in the home he purchased this year. It wasn
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A rush of theme park construction across Asia that will result in new homes for Mickey Mouse, the Monkey King and Hello Kitty is also providing a financial lifeline for the world’s elite group of entertainment designers.
New theme parks, resorts and casinos are scheduled to open from Singapore to Seoul over the next several years […]
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House Republicans pushed ahead Tuesday toward a vote on legislation that would raise the nation’s debt limit in exchange for trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts and congressional approval of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
But with the measure facing a veto threat from the White House, Speaker John Boehner said he was […]
Four years ago my husband accepted a transfer from Ottawa to Toronto. We were excited to come back to the GTA and bought a fixer-upper in a great neighbourhood in Unionville.
Late in 2009, after finishing a $110,000 renovation, my husband was laid off from his job as a marketing director for a Markham high-tech company. […]
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Standard & Poor’s is warning mortgage giants Fannie Me and Freddie Mac that they may lose their top credit ratings if lawmakers don’t raise the U.S. government’s borrowing limit in time to avoid a default.
S&P says government-controlled Fannie and Freddie, along with certain Federal Home Loan Banks and Farm Credit System Banks, could also default […]
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