12:00AM | Tony Walker is the AFR's international editor | The Australian Financial Review
In the fourth part of his occasional series about the effects of globalisation, Tony Walker in Washington examines the political challenges for the United States.
12:00AM | Bill Vlasic, The New York Times | The Australian Financial Review
The auto giant's new owner is being coy about its performance, writes Bill Vlasic in Detroit.
20 August 2008 | Geoff Winestock | The Australian Financial Review
Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, Australia's richest man, went on national television with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently to launch an Australian Employment Covenant, a call to create 50,000 indigenous jobs.
19 August 2008 | Anthony Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
Even in the quiet Gulf Coast city of Mobile in Alabama's deep south, Bob Browning is finding it hard to escape the headlines.
15 August 2008 | Adrian Rollins | The Australian Financial Review
Ballarat in winter seems a long way from the heat and dust of Kalgoorlie.
14 August 2008 | The Economist | The Australian Financial Review
It is now clear that risk managers should have paid more attention to the first signs of trouble
13 August 2008 | Tony Walker | The Australian Financial Review
In the third part of an occasional series on the effects of globalisation on the United States, Tony Walker visits Youngstown, Ohio, left for dead 30 years ago, but which is now fighting back.
13 August 2008 | Michaela Boland | The Australian Financial Review
Geoff Levy, deputy chairman of boutique investment bank Investec Australia, was born in South Africa but when it comes to the film industry, he professes to be more The Sentimental Bloke than The Gods Must Be Crazy.
13 August 2008 | The Guardian | The Australian Financial Review
Russia's Vladimir Putin seems determined to end the career of Mikheil Saakashvili.
12 August 2008 | Ingrid Mansell and Jo Clarke | The Australian Financial Review
Failure is an essential part of the success process for mining master Robert Friedland, write Ingrid Mansell and Jo Clarke.
11 August 2008 | Pamela Williams | The Australian Financial Review
The sale of paintings partly owned by Rod Menzies but not disclosed by his auction house has prompted the industry to agitate for reform, writes national correspondent Pamela Williams.
11 August 2008 | Helene Cooper, The New York Times | The Australian Financial Review
The White House must decide whether to back its friend, Georgia, or an ally of convenience, Russia, writes Helene Cooper in Washington.
07 August 2008 | Paul Dibb and Geoffrey Barker. Emeritus professor Paul Dibb is the former head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Geoffrey Barker is a visiting fellow | The Australian Financial Review
The Beijing Olympic Games will be a triumphant celebration of the new and rising capitalist autocracies - nations, spearheaded by China, that successfully combine market capitalism with brutally undemocratic political systems.
06 August 2008 | David Litterick, The Sunday Telegraph, London | The Australian Financial Review
At this time of year, Cyprus is a holiday paradise
05 August 2008 | Geoff Kitney | The Australian Financial Review
For those who prefer the politics of policy over the politics of personality, leadership struggles are always a distraction from what they consider to be the more important matters of substance
05 August 2008 | Michael T Kaufman The New York Times | The Australian Financial Review
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet communism in some of the most powerful works of fiction and history written in the 20th century, died late on Sunday in Moscow of a heart ailment
05 August 2008 | Colleen Ryan | The Australian Financial Review
A snapshot of China's booming economy will be on display to the world through the prism of the Olympic Games over coming weeks, showcased to obtain as much exposure as its 600-strong team of primed athletes.
04 August 2008 | Colleen Ryan | The Australian Financial Review
The stakes couldn't be higher for China, writes Colleen Ryan in Beijing in the first of a two-part series on the Olympics.
01 August 2008 | Pamela Williams | The Australian Financial Review
For Peter Lowy, the 49-year-old Beverly Hills magnate born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the rush of publicity around the tax inquiry was all a far cry from the glossy Los Angeles world where he has stamped his mark.
01 August 2008 | James Chessell | The Australian Financial Review
It comes as no great surprise to Tony Clyne that his son has been given the top job at National Australia Bank at the tender of age of 40.
31 July 2008 | Geoff Kitney | The Australian Financial Review
Any doubts that the Doha round of world trade negotiations was turning nasty were dispelled on Monday when a senior US official was quoted by news agencies as accusing the top Indian negotiator Kamal Nath of rank hypocrisy.
31 July 2008 | James Eyers and Alex Boxsell | The Australian Financial Review
He has a very intuitive mind which transcends just pure black-letter law approach.
30 July 2008 | Tony Walker | The Australian Financial Review
When US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced a bailout and restructuring of the government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac it represented yet another example of a seismic shift in the way in which Washington works.
29 July 2008 | Katrina Nicholas | The Australian Financial Review
Geoff Dixon sounds drained
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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