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(26 Feb) - Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan. Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 120 percent, and... 

Shane Todd (1 Mar) - The family of an American who turned up dead in Singapore after expressing fear he was being duped by Chinese spies is calling for a congressional investigation into his death in Singapore. Relatives of Shane Todd, 31, believe the Montana man — who was worried that his employers in Singapore were using... 

(1 Mar) - Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said there’s no need for monetary stimulus in a country with full employment, leaving policy makers reliant on unorthodox tools to prevent asset bubbles. “We don’t have an output gap, and evidence of that is in an extremely tight labor market,” Shanmugaratnam, 56,...