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2015 election brings good news for democracy reform in 2016 and beyond

2015 election brings good news for democracy reform in 2016 and beyond
The banner headline in the Huffington Post after last week's elections wasn't what TV pundits or presidential candidates were talking about, but as a Delawarean it made me jump for joy: “Voters Chip Away at Citizens United.” Voters everywhere are fed ...
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Houghton has not just broken taboos over Trident, he has undermined democracy
Houghton has not just broken taboos over Trident, he has undermined democracy. Richard Norton-Taylor. The military should not take sides in political decisions. In making public his fears about Corbyn's views on Trident, the head of the UK armed forces ...
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Botswana: Can Botswana's Democracy Carry Spirit of the Kalahari?
Botswana has long been hailed as a 'miracle' of democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. In the last ten years however, this gilded reputation earned during 1970's and 1980's which reflected high economic growth levels and political stability, has lost much of ...
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Myanmar election: National League for Democracy claims more seats – video
Min Ko Naing announces the National League for Democracy (NLD) has won further seats in the upper house of Myanmar's parliament. Speaking to a large crowd celebrating outside the NLD's headquarters in Yangon, Naing says the party has secured 11 of ...
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Stock Market Today – HSBC Q3 Profit Surges 32%

Stock Market Today - HSBC Q3 Profit Surges 32%
China arrested one of its most successful fund managers as part of the communist party's intensified fight against market manipulation, the Wall Street Journal reports. The official state news agency Xinhua said he was arrested for alleged insider ...
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Ending China's Currency Manipulation
Any notion that their economy is based on a free-market system is simply not true. If an American company wants access to the Chinese consumers, that company must share its intellectual property, a condition that violates international fair-trade ...
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The Free Markets of Charles Koch
This historic period became famous for corporate monopolies, market manipulation and control by large corporations, exploitation of the working class, massive accumulation of wealth and power for industrialists, and catastrophic market crashes. In ...
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Good thing coming from democracy

Good thing coming from democracy
Ever since the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost power and the coming to the centre politics and governance of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerians have blamed all the woes of the country on the PDP. It is common to hear ...
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Christian Democracy arrives in Britain
It may not be apparent now – and there is little British interest anyway – but Christian Democracy, in nineteenth century origin and post-war practice, really was shaped by Christian, or specifically Catholic, social teaching, from Rerum Novarum on ...
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President Sisi laments Western criticism over democracy in Egypt
Right from the get-go, Egypt's President makes it clear he wants to set the record straight. Even as we film our introduction, he hears me say to camera that while he says he has a "roadmap for democracy," not everyone is convinced. He quickly jumps in.
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Venezuelan hedge fund manager gets 13 years for fraud scheme

Venezuelan hedge fund manager gets 13 years for fraud scheme
Over time, the fraud ballooned exponentially as Illarramendi used his Stamford-based hedge funds to try to cover up losses exceeding a half billion dollars. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to several counts of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice ...
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Supreme Court Denies Request to Hear Newman Case
... Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson were convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to prison after their trades in certain stocks, allegedly based on a chain of material non-public information, resulted in over $ 70 million in gains for their hedge ...
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Having Surged In The Past Week, Are Casino Stocks A Good Buy Now?
In fact, the 15 most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds have returned 118% since the end of August 2012 and beaten the S&P 500 Index by some 60 percentage points (see more details here). Macau gaming revenues have been atrocious for some time ...
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Controversial pharma CEO Martin Shkreli bails on Valeant bet
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The one-time hedge fund executive now running a biotech firm at the center of a drug-pricing controversy on Monday said he has bailed from a losing bet he made on another contentious drug maker: Valeant Pharmaceuticals ...
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