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Hatoyama's Cabinet Presses Bank of Japan to Fight Deflation
Nov 19th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese government ministersincreased pressure on the central bank to tackle falling pricesin the world’s second-largest economy. “My understanding...
Brazil Hits Its ADRs With Levy In Fresh Bid To Tame Real
Nov 18th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Brasilia (Dow Jones)--In yet another effort to stem the rapid flow of capital into Brazilian securities that has sent the country's currency soaring against the US dollar...
Japan finmin, ECB's Noyer share caution on economy
Nov 16th, 2009 - Forbes
TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Japan's finance minister and an ECB governing council member agreed on the need to cautiously watch the economic outlook even though both Japan and the euro zone economies logged expansion in the third quarter...
World Tries to Buck Up Dollar
Nov 12th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Governments around the world stepped up efforts to stem the U.S. dollar's slide, as officials grow increasingly concerned about the impact of the weak greenback on their nascent economic recoveries. Thailand...
APEC ministers make plans to sustain recovery
Nov 11th, 2009 - AOL Money & Finance
SINGAPORE -Asia-Pacific ministers brainstormed Thursday strategies to sustain the global economic recovery amid calls to create a region-wide free trade area and end all restrictions on food trade.

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G7 meeting in Rome - Japan's Minister of Finance Drunk?
Japan's Minister of Finance, Shoichi Nakagawa, has blamed a heavy dose of cold medicine for a slurred and baffling performance at the G7 meeting in Rome, where the helmsman of the worlds second biggest economy appeared to be incapably drunk ...
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Raw Video: Drunken Japanese Finance Minister?
Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's resigned Tuesday after a seemingly drunken performance at a recent G-7 summit in Rome. Video footage of his final press conference shows the 55-year-old confused, drowsy and slurring his speech. (Feb. 17)
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Raw Video: Drunken Japanese Finance Minister?
Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's resigned Tuesday after a seemingly drunken performance at a recent G-7 summit in Rome. Video footage of his final press conference shows the 55-year-old confused, drowsy and slurring his speech. (Feb. 17)
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In-depth interview with Nigeria's former finance minister
Exclusive interview with Nigeria's former finance minister.

Finance Minister from WikiPedia:

The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.

A minister of finance (also called financial affairs, the treasury, the economy, or economic affairs) has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances. Finance ministers are often found in state or provincial governments if that country has a form of federalism.

The powers of a finance minister vary between governments. Sometimes the finance minister is the most powerful cabinet post, like in Canada or New Zealand. Other times they are unpopular posts if they must raise taxes or cut spending.

In the United States, the finance minister is called the Secretary of the Treasury, though there is a separate Treasurer of the United States, and it is the director of the Office of Management and Budget who drafts the budget.