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Poland's newly re-elected prime minister said Friday that he will raise the retirement age to 67 as he announced a series of far-reaching measures aimed at bringing down public debt.

Nov. 7 -- Joseph Bower, a professor at Harvard Business School, talks about measures U.S. corporations could take to increase employment.

Eye-popping severance packages thrive in spite of the measures put in place in the wake of the financial crisis to crack down on excessive pay.

Anyone expecting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to outline bold new measures to boost flagging U.S. growth on Thursday is likely to come away disappointed.

The deal being discussed would offer billions of euros in fresh loans in return for accelerated privatization and tougher tax collection measures on the part of the beleaguered Greek government.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi is proposing bipartisan measures to relaunch growth in Italy.

Trying to inject calm, the European Central Bank hinted it could adopt more aggressive bond-buying measures.

Small businesses are closing one after another as Greek measures to combat the financial crisis have sliced profit margins and damped consumer demand.

There's one thing both liberals and conservatives can agree on: The way the U.S. measures poverty is flawed. But ideas for making it more accurate vary.

The Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday to consider, and perhaps even adopt, additional measures to prop up a softening U.S. economic recovery.