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90% of consumer borrowing in Hungary this year says the Hungarian central bank isis swiss francs or euros. With the Hungariancurrency dropping in value its making it harder to repay loans. And much of government debt is denominated in foreign currency making repayment all that harder.

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New kinds of collaboration. Gazprom and the Italian oil company Eni will collaborate to get natural gas through new pipelines to Southern Europe. Eni already has favored status in its collaboration with Gazprom inside Russia.

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Adam Bryant's interview with S.D. Shibulal, CEO of Infosys in April 2014.

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President Obama says he told House Speaker Boehner to pass a stand-alone bill for defunding Planned Parenthood, and not attach it to the budget bill. He said: "Put it in a separate bill, we'll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don't try to sneak this thing through." These comments were made while talking to campaign donors in Chicago on April 14, 2011. On the budget Obama said he told Republicans in the budget negotiations: "You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?"

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Delcy Rodriguez and her special relationship and confidence of the DJT administration as it seeks to restore economic prosperity to Venezuela after a disastrous experiment and mismanagement of the economy.

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A biographical account of Nigeria's acting president Goodluck Jonathan, who brings an academic background as a biologist with a doctorate in zoology and is a former environmental official. Nigeria faces huge problems of corruption, north-south tensions, and lacks basic infrastructure especially power generation capacity. He brings humility and is associated with environmentalists. He was selected as vice president because of his clean government credentials.

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Thomas Sargent of New York University, the 2012 Nobel prize winner in economics, says the EU leaders can learn from the way the federal government in the U.S. handled the issue of state's debt when it came up in the 1790's and in 1840. In 1790 the federal government- under the leadership of Washington and Hamilton- saw the need to honor state's debt because of the contribution made by states in the war of independence and the U.S. assumed state's debt. In 1840 the U.S. refused to assume state's debt and states went into default. The result was beneficial because state's passed balanced budget rules and restrained reckless spending. Another benefit was that this preserved state rights to manage their finances and the federal structure setup under the constitution.

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The story of all the important characters in what seems almost like a play, how they acted and how the events unfolded, how they reacted to the events, and how things went a certain way. Characters like Christopher Bancroft who liked to stay aloof from the family in an almost patriarchal way and in the end finding himself undone by dissenting younger family members who he had ignored perhaps insulted. Characters like Lipton and Elefante. How did Elefante bring in Lipton when Lipton had represented Murdoch in transferring his corporte base to the US from Australia, one wonders. In the end despite his show of support for the family he is the one who votes key trusts of the family Murdoch's way. He also hired Merrill who recommended looking at Murdoch's offer because of Thomson's interest in Reuter's plc, and Dow Jones need for scale. In a global news gathering process and need for a global mindset already Zannino's plan not to invest in the Asian and European editions because of shortage of funds shows how the Journal was declining. The lack of clear direction and leadership would have lead to something like this happening sooner or later but the way it finally brought an end to a century of the Bancroft family's control and the manner in which Murdoch patiently waited for Dow Jones to be brought under News Corporation, for all the family's talk about ideals ending with asking for Dow Jones to assume lawyer and investment banking advisory fees in exchange for agreement, is a story about corporate dynasties rise and fall just like the royal dynasties of previous centuries. ...