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he world is now using a record amount of oil even though Europe and the United States are paring back.

Unless the factory captures the carbon dioxide created during the process of turning coal into diesel fuel, the global warming impact of driving a mile would double.

In times of panic, money tends to flee there from weaker member countries, causing fiscal and financial crises.

Part of the reason performance has disappointed is that its fall in productivity growth has partly offset the devaluation.

A Mafia Legacy Taints the Earth in Southern Italy

Camorra

One environmental group estimates that 10 million tons of toxic garbage has been illegally buried here since the early 1990s, earning billions of dollars for the mafia even as toxic substances leached into the soil and the water table.

A world of robber barons

The economics of shale oil Saudi America

The parable of Argentina

As Prime Russian Trading Partner, Germany Appears Crucial to Ending Crisis

Germany is now heavily reliant on Russia for its energy needs, importing more natural gas from Russia than any other country in Europe

the German chancellor has called for a more diplomatic solution, preferring more limited actions like many of her European counterparts.

Secret History of Silicon Valley

Along with many economists, Mr. Summers argued that an overly aggressive trade stance could hurt manufacturing — by, for instance, pushing up the price of imported steel used by carmakers — and over time, drive companies away.

“People will pay more for the product because it’s produced in a place that can’t make it at the lowest cost,” he said. “It burdens exporters because they pay more for their inputs. And it removes the spur of competition.”

China buying '70% of our coal', says Continental Coal

A single, large coal plant, if built with the best-available technology, can reduce emissions by the annual equivalent of taking a million cars off the road compared to the subcritical coal-plant technology still prevalent in most countries.

Northern Europe’s Drag on the World Economy

Which Corporate Taxation for America?

The current system, all agree, is deeply flawed: the corporate tax rate is too high by global standards, and the corporate tax base is too narrow, owing to numerous credits, deductions, and special provisions that distort economic decisions.

The Greek Budget Myth

But more important is the manner in which a damning verdict from the voters would make governments more cautious about eurozone integration, limiting the extent to which the strong support the weak and all feel they are in the same boat.

These four steps are: to set up a comprehensive banking union; to ensure hard-pressed companies in recession-hit southern Europe receive credit at interest rates comparable to those enjoyed by their competitors in the north; to reduce mass unemployment, especially among youth; and to make sustainable the public debts of Greece and other states deep in hock.