Mining the history of a Bolivian silver town well worth the trip The Los Angeles Times For more than 300 years the Spanish empire was fueled with silver mined in Potosí's Cerro Rico, or "rich hill," home to one of the largest veins of silver ore in the New World. | The mountain, supposedly discovered by a llama herder ...
Donald Trump rips Barack Obama for playing 'more golf last year than Tiger Woods' Canberra Times Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a swing at President Barack Obama on Monday, insinuating that his penchant for golf has gotten in the way of his work schedule. | "It was reported today [Obama] played 250 rounds of golf and he's going to be in Hawaii, I think did they say for three weeks?" Trump said at a Monday night c...
South Korea's Plan to Curb Debt Threatens Economic Growth WorldNews.com | After years of struggling to curb household debt, South Korean policy makers have devised a plan that economists say will work, but it is likely to hurt the drivers of the nation’s growth, according to Bloomberg News. | It’s impossible to curb growing household debt without dampening domestic demand, warns Oh Suk Tae, a Seoul-based economist ...
