This story was runner-up in the high school category in News-Decoder’s inaugural essay contest. By Aisha Malhas The flag of Jordan includes a white star with seven points, one for each of the seven hills on which the capital Amman was built. Today those seven...
Young adults around the world face an alarming set of challenges: debt, joblessness, globalization and rising house prices. Young people at a seminar on investing, Brookline (USA), 8 January 2016(AP Photo/The Christian Science Monitor, Ann Hermes) The Guardian...
Record unemployment has forced many young Greeks to leave their country, but the decision to uproot is not an easy one to take. This is the second in a series of articles by students at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the effects of Greece’s economic...
Stock markets around the world have fallen sharply. The question is: How vicious can the bear become? Sculpture of a bear outside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (EPA/Frank Rumpenhorst) The nation’s heartland boomed to meet the global economy’s insatiable demand for its...
The U.S. central bank — the “Fed” — is expected to raise interest rates soon, the first monetary tightening in years. Here’s why it matters to all of us. (Wikimedia Commons) The Federal Reserve — the U.S. central bank — is...
(This article was originally published by the Asia Society on ChinaFile.) By David Schlesinger When things hit their extreme, they can only move to the opposite direction — 物极必反 (wù jí bì fǎn) — is an idiom that seems to sum up perfectly punditry about...
Greece is a long way from Indonesia of 1997, but the European nation could learn from Asia’s own crisis. Former International Monetary Fund Managing (IMF) Director Michel Camdessus looks on as then Indonesian President Suharto signs an IMF deal in Jakarta, 15...