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China is expected to keep benchmark lending rates unchanged on Wednesday, grabbing the spotlight in Asia as the relentless rise in oil prices toward $100 a barrel seeps deeper into investor sentiment globally. The latest trade data from Japan, export orders from Taiwan, producer price inflation figures from South Korea and New Zealand's second-quarter current account balance are also on the regional calendar on Wednesday. The main event of the day on Wednesday, of course, is the Federal Reserve's policy meeting, where the U.S. central bank will announce its latest interest rate dec...

A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. China is expected to keep benchmark lending rates unchanged on Wednesday, grabbing the... -September 19, 2023 at 05:45 pm EDT - MarketScreener

The Obama administration faces its first real Latin American crisis. Let's hope Team Obama is aware of the goals of democracy's new-found but fickle friends.

In the past 10 months, the leaders of the G-8 and G-20 nations have met three times at elaborate and expensive summits to address the world's financial woes. But far from providing remediesfor ailing economies, the summits' standard prescriptions forever-more government intervention and regulations are likely onlyto impede economic recovery. This paper explains why free marketsand limited government are the best responses to economicrecession--and argues that the best thing for economies around theworld would be for the fourth "G-Process" summit in Pittsburgh tobe the last.

CEDAW is an ineffective and inappropriate instrument for advancing women's rights. It has accomplished little to improve women's rights in some of the most oppressive nations that have ratifiedit, such as Saudi Arabia. American women's freedom and personaldignity is best protected by the U.S. Constitution and the rule oflaw it establishes.