(LinkAsia: November 4, 2011) Recent conciliatory moves by the government in Myanmar have some people hopeful for real change. But Maung Zarni, Burmese activist and research fellow at the London...
(LinkAsia: November 4, 2011) The government in Myanmar seems to be opening up, but some people are wondering if the moves are genuine. Flooding in Southeast Asia has been devastating,...
Catherine Mulbrandon, creator of the blog Visualizing Economics, illustrates the distribution of income in the US, comparing the earnings of the top one percent to those of the bottom 99.
Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West offers his view on the government bailout of "too big to fail" banks. He explains that while the bailouts were counterproductive from a Darwinian view...
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its microcredit program remain robust despite the gloomy state of the global economy. Yunus credits the bank's one-on-one relationship...
Is the U.S. economy showing signs of recovery, as some indicators suggest, or is any talk of recovery dangerously premature? Robert Reich offers thoughtful insight on the global economic meltdown...
What if instead of paying $2 for a fast-food hamburger, you had to pay $200? Would it be worth it? In this Link TV special, find out from author and...
(Global Pulse: November 18, 2009) Is it time for the U.S to accept China's equality? President Obama makes a historic trip to China, stressing the importance of China as partner...
Activist and "Nickel and Dimed" author Barbara Ehrenreich criticizes the "delusional" positivity that has permeated American culture in this FORA.tv segment. She suggests that so-called "negative" realists are persecuted for...
Do you think the actions of the U.S. Federal Reserve should be more transparent? In this clip U.S. Representative Ron Paul defends his Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which...
Economist Paul Romer speculates how much land it would take to house 8 billion people or more. He says finding the land is easy, the challenge "will be to rethink...
Social entrepreneur Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of Kashf Foundation, Pakistan's third largest microfinance institution, tells Global X why she had to unlearn what she learned about economics.
She also...
