Indications are that President Barack Obama will get his second term as President of the United States of America in tomorrow’s presidential elections. First, there was news that the highly respected Republican and former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell had again endorsed Mr Obama. Excerpts of the endorsement given in a CBS […]

China’s burgeoning middle class will have expanded to 600 million people by the year 2020, according to a government think tank. As a result of the continued rapid urbanisation, the country will be able to maintain growth at between 7% and 8%, despite fears of slowing prosperity. Chi Fulin, Executive President of the China Institute […]

Japan’s battered electronics giants are in a race against time, analysts say, as losses that threaten their very survival mount and as overseas rivals look like they are running away with the show. A customer is seen looking at television sets by Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic at a store in Tokyo, on November 1. The […]

Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike can agree that the United States corporate tax system is broken. Companies are wildly avoiding their tax obligations and exploiting loopholes, causing the government to lose out on billions of dollars of revenue. Through the use of strategies such as the “Double-Irish” and the “Dutch-Sandwich,” multinational corporations such as Google […]