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Financial Transparency After Panama

Legal crackdowns after the Panama Papers revelations will raise tricky questions.

Gas Glut
The Other Hydrocarbon Price Crash

Oil prices have mounted a minor comeback recently, but we haven’t seen the bottom of the LNG market yet.

Blue Model Blues
U.S. Pension Shortfall: $3.4 Trillion

Over the next decade, more municipalities will likely follow San Bernardino, Detroit, and Puerto Rico into bankruptcy.

Crude Economics
Oil Guru Says OPEC’s Era Is Over

Famed oil historian Daniel Yergin thinks “[t]he era of Opec as a decisive force in the world economy is over.”

Japan's innovation
Japan: The Once and Future Tech Superpower?

Can Japan regain some of the tech élan that once made its growth so robust many Americans feared it would overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy?

The Syrian Civil War
Assad Regime, Russia to Attack Aleppo

Widely reported assault would signal end of truce.

garden state blues
Super-rich Flee New Jersey

The answer to struggling states’ woes isn’t to hike taxes, kill jobs and drive taxpayers away, and it isn’t to slash services to the bone, either.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Australia and Japan Strengthen Military Ties

Meanwhile, Chinese investment in Australia has soared over the past few months, a reminder of Beijing’s economic power down under.

Seeing Potential
This Week in Promising Green Dreams

What Scottish tidal power, waste-to-energy plants, and carbon farming have in common.

Higher Ed Shake Up
Beyond the BA

Michael Petrilli makes a strong case for beefing up vocational education programs.

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