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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called for eliminating legal monopolies that make HIV/AIDS medicine so expensive in the United States that many patients cannot afford treatment and die. "The U.S. has - by far - the highest prices in the world for prescripti on drugs," Sanders said. "The simple fact is that the prices of patent medicines are a significant barrier to access to health for millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans and people die because of it," he added in hisopening statementat a Senat...

So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters – earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis – that adding a man-made disaster is all the more tragic. The pain that Europe, especially its poor and young, is suffering as a result of its leade rs’ willful ignorance of the lessons of the past is entirely unnecessary.

The austerity model chosen by Europe was the wrong model as it addressed the supply side of the economy and emerging markets like South Africa could benefit from the Chinese lesson of stimulating the demand side, Nobel prize winner for economics Joseph Sti glitz said yesterday.

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The Nobel Prize-winning economist is in town for the Absa Capital Markets conference. His view of the world’s advanced industrial nations is bleak, to say the least. But the good news is that he’s much more upbeat about the prospects for emerging market s like South Africa – as long as we watch our exchange rate. By REBECCA DAVIS.

(www.abndigital.com) Nobel laureate for economics and Columbia Business School Professor Joseph Stiglitz addressed media in Cape Town this morning on the opp...

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Because he is American and a Nobel laureate in economics, his discourse – disturbing, iconoclastic and in total opposition with European Council conclusions in recent months –...

He said this on Monday when addressing a media briefing during the Absa Capital Markets conference in Cape Town.Stiglitz is also an economics professor at Columbia University and was last month appointed as government's representative on a court ordered task team to look into the Wal-Mart/Massmart merger's effect on local manufacturing