PITTSBURGH - Barack Obama told top business leaders Thursday that politics often get in the way of solving problems that threaten America's ability to stay competitive in the global economy.

File photo shows the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo. Business confidence in the country has slumped to its lowest level in almost five years on worries about a weaker economy

The Bush administration is so lame, it's getting lectures from the communist governors of China on how best to regulate the market. What America needs is a clear strategy to sustain its middle class in a global economy that has just integrated over 2 bil

As an emerging center of world power, Asia must take the lead in finding solutions to crises such as the surge in fuel and food prices because global institutions such as World Trade Organization are proving to be impotent, business leaders said Sunday.

No one understood the trend setting economy of modern day. The Japanese economy is ahead of the rest of the world by twenty years. Since 1988, the Japanese economy has faced deflation driven recession due to excessive debt load. Now it faces recession and