Is it a plague? what kind of an upside down town have we come in to?

In all of these areas, Venezuela is faring poorly even by Latin America s low standards.

What is required is easy fiscal policy today, together with plans to achieve fiscal rectitude in the long run.

We're at best ignored and maligned and abused, at worst, by negligent regulatory agencies, pernicious zoning and lax governmental accountability.

Over and under invoicing of trade, for example, is a time tested way to spirit money out of a country.

We're at best ignored, and maligned and abused, at worst, by negligent regulatory agencies, pernicious zoning and lax governmental accountability.

The lax regimes on Russia s borders with the former Soviet republics of Central Asia facilitate the smuggling of narcotics and other contraband.

This trend is exacerbated by the declining efficiency of financial resources in the state sector, a product of the soft budget constraint implied by easily accessible, cheap capital.

Second, a massive wave of liquidity, via easy monetary policy, is chasing assets, including commodities, which may eventually stoke inflation further.

In the continued absence of genuine and uncompromising Palestinian efforts to eradicate the Palestinian terrorist campaign, Israel will be compelled to take the necessary defensive measures to bring an end to the killing of its civilians in accordance with international humanitarian law.

The consultation reviewed applicable international agreements and soft law documents and concluded that these instruments needed to be re examined in light of recent fundamental changes in international relations.

But, because publicly traded companies usually have a large amount of capital in place, lax rules would enable insiders to use this capital to their advantage.

No safe havens for tax evasion. No safe havens for money laundering and terrorism financing, and no safe havens for cozy financial regulation.

These asset bubbles were inflated by lax lending standards and an excessive willingness to borrow, which seemed similar to the Greek government s willingness to take on debt to pay lavish pensions.

Short term market interest rates will fall, but, as investors begin to recognize the ultimate inflationary consequences of very loose monetary policy, longer term interest rates will rise.

Europe, gripped by a tremendous banking and debt crisis, is not an attractive destination, and loose monetary policy in the US has produced ultra low bond yields there.

Policymakers should remember that the housing boom was fueled by easy monetary policy, which sought to expand job growth as the US recovered from the last recession.

In Poland, the politics of values is based on the assumption that a moral order based on religion should prevail over the freedoms guaranteed by permissive liberalism on issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the death penalty.

The country s so called moderate relax monetary policy also played its part by allowing bank lending to expand by almost 34 in 2009, with M2 money supply growing by 27 .

Tony Blair, once an ardent pro European (at least by Britain s undemanding standards), might finally have to cede power to Gordon Brown, who is famously cold to European integration.

There are no provisions on wiretapping, confidentiality, leniency and the protection of informants, or telemarketing. The FCA does not provide for the FTC to enter into agreements with other agencies regarding exchange of information.

The Fed s easy money policy is now stoking US inflation rather than a recovery.

Ironically, then, the expanded access to mortgage lending that creates new homeowners in Latin America may end up protecting the region from the disaster that too loose credit created in the US.

In recent years, a key obstacle to enhanced cooperation on enforcement against international cartels area has arisen from the confidentiality that is accorded under national leniency programmes to information from leniency applications.