Mike Bloomberg has proposed hiking taxes on wealthy investors, imposing a levy on financial transactions, and toughening financial regulations. It is a fine list. The problem: It is the polar opposite of his past positions. 

* Real cuts losses after two central bank interventions * Colombia announces changes in tax reform * Latin American stocks eye worst day in three months (Updates prices; adds details, news items) By Medha Singh and Uday Sampath Kumar Nov 26 (Reuters) – Brazil’s real slipped in volatile trading on Tuesday to a fresh record […]

When Andrea Espinosa began offering food from her home in the Argentinian district of Neuquen eight years ago, it was just to hungry school kids. Now even pensioners shuffle, embarrassed, into her tiny breeze-block shack. Theoretically, Neuquen, which lies on a windswept Patagonian plateau, is one of Argentina’s boom towns, home to the third largest […]

Ben & Jerry’s posted a video (pictured) to Twitter on Saturday and called on Congress to expunge cannabis convictions, saying that the majority of pot-related arrests occur among black people.

Workers may have found 27 more human graves near notorious Florida reform school shuttered in 2011, where children were said to have been locked in chains, beaten and sexually abused.

New Zealand’s prime minister vowed Saturday to toughen the country’s gun laws after revealing the alleged shooter behind Christchurch’s mosque attacks had legally bought the five weapons, including two semi-automatic rifles, used in the massacre. The nation’s firearms laws are lax compared to neighbouring Australia, which enacted a strict gun control regime in the wake […]

The business-friendly Reform Party had 30.7 percent of the vote in an partial count on Sunday. Ratas’s Center party was in second with 20.2 percent and the euroskeptic EKRE party was in third with 17.5 percent. The results were from about 81 percent of ballots counted, based on a Bloomberg calculation from Electoral Commission data.

The business rates system was drawn up before the advent of internet sales, meaning a tax on premises hits the high street while sparing web giants like Amazon.

Iain Duncan Smith, the architect of the Universal Credit system, has urged the Chancellor Phillip Hammond to use this month’s Budget to plough £2billion into the beleaguered system.

The protests, organized by jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his supporters, were a challenge to the authorities who were hoping for a high turnout at regional elections also being held on Sunday, despite anger over the pension move. Footage of the protests, which were held in more than 80 towns and cities, showed the […]