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Ask AP: Building windmills, seized drugs prices

AP — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:30:18 +0000

Windmills don’t just sprout from the earth wherever there’s a stiff breeze. Curiosity about where windmills in the U.S. are manufactured _ and how the massive contraptions get to the sites where they’re installed _ inspired one of three questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers’ questions about the news.

What is Libor? Answers to interest-rate questions

AP — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:45:26 +0000

It goes by a clumsy acronym, and its inner workings may be difficult to understand, but a key interest rate set in London every business day is having a dramatic impact on the U.S. and global economies as the credit crisis has...

QandA: McCain, Obama on Iraq, Iran, Putin

AP — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:52:41 +0000

Foreign policy will be the subject when Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet for their first presidential debate. Both covered some of the same ground during their primary-season debates. What they’ve said on Iraq, Iran and then-Russian President Vladimir Putin.

QandA about problems with Large Hadron Collider

AP — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:58:50 +0000

The damage to the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border will delay for at least two months the quest for scientists to learn more about the nature of the universe and the origins of all...

What is short-selling and 'naked' shorting?

AP — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:00:05 +0000

As part of a wide-ranging effort to contain Wall Street’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Securities and Exchange Commission took the unprecedented step Friday of banning short sales of stock in 799 financial...

QandA on cleaning up the financial crisis mess

AP — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:09:06 +0000

Proposals to create a new entity to clean up the nation’s financial crisis _ much like the government did in the late 1980s to clean up the savings and loan mess _ rocked the stock market and the presidential campaign trail...

How was Chinese baby formula chemically tainted?

AP — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:26:56 +0000

China’s unfolding scandal involving tainted baby formula has reawakened fears over product safety amid rapid economic growth and lax regulation across the sprawling nation of 1.3 billion...

McCain and Obama on hooks and bullets

AP — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:52:58 +0000

John McCain and Barack Obama spoke about hunting and fishing in a Q&A with Field & Stream magazine:

What's worth saving at Lehman Brothers?

AP — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:54:17 +0000

With Lehman Brothers’ survival in question, officials of major global banks and the U.S. government were in weekend negotiations aimed at resolving the investment bank’s precarious financial situation. Wall Street CEOs were being asked to come up with a way to deal with Lehman’s problems and avoid the risks they posed to the financial industry and the broader economy; one of the options being explored was a purchase of Lehman by one of its healthier competitors.

Ask AP: Gold at Fort Knox, jobs sent overseas

AP — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:12:49 +0000

There’s gold in them thar vaults! But how much? A reader’s curiosity about how much of the shiny stuff is stored at Fort Knox inspired one of three questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers’ questions about the news.