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Experts predict inflation growth in the United States during Trump's reign - 11/15/2016

The US economy is likely to enter a new era with advent of Donald Trump’s rule, the US President-elect, writes The Wall Street Journal. The Republican’s policy may lead to increased rates of economic recovery in the US, higher interest rates and inflation, as well as emergence of new risks, including threat of an international trade war, noted experts interviewed by the newspaper. Expectations...

Ecuador's Foreign Minister: Assange should be free - 11/14/2016

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that he intends to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London in the near future, according to Agence France-Presse. During a press conference, he stressed that he would do it, but "not for the previously reported reasons ", and refused to provide more detailed information. Recall, a number of US media wrote that the WikiLeaks founder has problems with health. In...

TTIP can be put into cold storage - 11/11/2016

Fate of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, is in the hands of future US administration, said German State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Energy Matthias Machnig on Friday. Republican Donald Trump unexpectedly won the United States presidential elections. Experts say that this is casting doubt on possibility of reaching an agreement on TTIP. They are pointing to...

Anti-Trump protests: what happens when public opinion polarizes - 11/10/2016

Rallies against President-Elect Donald Trump are held in many US cities. Several thousand people took to the streets of New York City chanting "Not my president!". The action participants divided into two groups. One gathered in the middle of Manhattan and went to Trump Tower skyscraper, and other settled in a local park. Demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of people marched in...

Europeans are setting their minds on cooperation with Trump - 11/09/2016

Results of the US presidential election can be called a stunning political sensation in America. Most forecasters and analysts were confident of Clinton’s victory. "America never accepts anything less than the best," - said Trump on November 9, referring to his victory speech to the voters. "Our campaign is over, but our work is just beginning, and we will do this work so that you will be proud...

Political battle in the US set off a war of Internet bots - 11/08/2016

Current presidential campaign in the United States may go down in history as the first, which massively used software for dissemination information on social networks. Bots have created a third of Twitter messages on support of Donald Trump, and a fifth of tweets for Hillary Clinton. Proliferation of digital technologies, mobile Internet, popularity of social networks and other "new media" have...

The EU suggests imposing economic sanctions on Turkey - 11/08/2016

Relations between Turkey and the European Union have undergone a new test. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, one of countries - founders of the EU, Jean Asselborn threated Ankara with sanctions for arrest of opposition MPs from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party. In turn, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that the Europeans stop interfering in internal affairs of...

Clinton's emails: new Watergate or great commotion about nothing? - 10/31/2016

Presidential race in the United States is nearing the finish line, yet keeps surprising even most imperturbable observers. Federal Bureau of Investigation has brought back a case with official e-mails of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The correspondence relates to times of her tenure in the State Department. Public was surprised to learn that the FBI once again dove in clarifying...

Experts and officials call to stimulate economies with state expenditures - 10/28/2016

A few years ago, many experts called for fiscal austerity, and investors feared that xcess costs would hit the government bond market. In 2011, investor Bill Gross, then ruled the world’s largest bond fund Pimco, sold US Treasury bonds saying that British bonds were based "on a nitroglycerine bed". Nowadays, Gross is urging to increase spending. There are signs that governments are willing to...

Britain's GDP grows in spite of forecasts - 10/28/2016

Despite negative predictions of experts after the Brexit referendum, the country's economy has grown in the third quarter. The G20 summit in July assessed Brexit as the most significant threat to growth of the global economy since the crisis of 2008-2009. However, the country’s GDP increased by 0.5%, which was above the average forecast of analysts in Bloomberg of 0.3%. yet was slightly lower...
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