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‘Saudi Texas’ produces almost one-third of America’s crude oil, and as a separate country would rank #13 in the world By Mark J. Perry ...

And the Answer is Uniastrum by Mark J. Grant It's funny how things are done in Europe. Nothing is as it seems. Then   everything...

Banks at Heart of Cyprus Mess Were Bullish on Athens as Other Investors Fled By DAVID ENRICH and CHARLES FORELLE In August 2010, Gree...

Reality check in Spain Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch Finance Minister and head of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers By David ...

A History of Self-Reliance By  JOE PARKINSON  and  JAMES ANGELOS NICOSIA, Cyprus—Over the past week, as Cyprus concluded chaot...

The Real Deal Behind the  “Cyprus deal”  by Joseph Salerno The “Cyprus deal” as it has been widely referred to in the media may mark...

The risk of the occasional run on an individual bank has now been replaced with the acute and rising risk of a run on the entire system ...

Is the abandonment of Cyprus part of strategy at play? by Lenos Trigeorgis Throughout history, economics drove politics. In Cyprus it ...

The old English politeness is harder to find today by Peter Whittle The queue—that is, standing in line—has long been valued as a cha...

Fast reactors can shrink nuclear-waste stockpiles, but can designers tame the inherent hazards? By Peter Fairley  Fast reactors, ...

Nothing succeeds (optional comma) as planned By Max Fisher Cyprus and the European Union have  reached a bailout deal for the tiny a...

Cypriots are now looking ahead to a less distinguished period of their intertwined history By Tom Stoukas For Cypriots trying to make...

Don't be fooled by the latest jobs numbers. The unemployment situation in the U.S. is still dire By  MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The Great...

Cyprus Deal Preserves Euro but Sows Mistrust Between Continent's Haves, Have-Nots A deal reached Monday in Brussels may have saved ...

The discipline of failure and loss makes a comeback by WSJ Practice still makes imperfect, but Sunday's overnight deal to save Cypr...

It already has By Thomas Sowell The decision of the government in Cyprus to simply take money out of people's bank accounts ther...

The price of “bailout fatigue” By Felix Salmon This was not a good weekend for Russian billionaires. First, Boris Berezovsky was  fo...