The primary characters in The Price of Everything are Ruth Lieber, an economics professor and provost at Stanford University, and Ramon Fernandez, a Cuban immigrant tennis prodigy studying there...

"Just -- and I hope you were able to hear of some of the points that Peter was making job reaction what what what's coming out of London again."...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) says it places high priority on making Mexico an important link in its widely publicized “win-win” expansion into Latin America...

In a just-released survey weighted to mimic the nation's adult population, 64 percent of respondents reported that the financial downturn had already caused them to make "painful" cutbacks in spending this year, while 27 percent reported being "extremely" or "very" worried about being able to pay bills...