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Back in the 1920s, an Austrian newspaper won the title for headline of the decade with a front-page story that read, "Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive; Great War Fought By Mistake."
In Europe, complacency creeping in ... Fed in 2007 slow on the uptake ... Small grocer, Magruder's, wraps it up ... Germany to move gold reserves back home ... News from United Press International.
It is too early for European leaders to declare work on their economic rescue over despite the temptation to do so, U.S. economists say.
Smart guys
They are handing Europe's trouble spots over to the technocrats.
National, state and local debt in the United States likely will top post-World War II levels because conditions have changed, economists said.
It has become increasingly hard to find a country without a debt crisis looming, economists said.
Rising interest rates on rising debt could haunt the United States much like the crisis that sneaked up on U.S. homeowners, a Harvard University economist said.
A former International Monetary Fund chief economist said in Singapore that a large bank failing was to be expected soon.
The Cato Institute's 21st annual monetary Conference Thursday, on the future of the euro, achieved more or less unanimous consensus: the euro can be expected to be very strong against the dollar in the next two years, soaring to $1.50 or more, but is in s
There was general consensus on one thing at the American Enterprise Institute Tuesday, in a discussion on "The fall of the dollar and the global economy:" The dollar''s fall could have a lot further to go.
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Tornadoes Devastate Moore, Oklahoma
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A damaged movie theater is seen in aftermath of a series of tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma, May 21, 2013. On May 20 a series of tornadoes swept through severals towns south of Oklahoma City leaving a path of destruction and killing at least 24 people. UPI/J.P. Wilson