Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned as the anti-war candidate. But as President, he has opened a new phase in the history of warfare: Cyberwar. In Confront and Conceal, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, details how President Obama secretly ordered a cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear [...]
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Earlier this year, oil prices soared to more than $100 a barrel again, bringing back memories of the oil price spike of 2007 and 2008. That spike, which saw oil prices hit an all-time high of $147 a barrel, was primarily blamed on “speculators.” But it also caused major [...]
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! From growing income disparity to chronic unemployment in the U.S to the sovereign debt and banking crises in Europe to slowing and stagnant growth in China and Japan, globalization is much to blame for what ails the global economy, says Michael Casey of Dow Jones and author of Unfair [...]
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The headlines coming out of Europe this weekend were not particularly positive for those hoping for major new policy action to deal with the crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel once again rejected calls for a euro-bond, something U.S. policymakers and many in southern Europe are agitating for. “Under no circumstances” would Germany agree to euro [...]
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