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This is a watershed event for Argentina after it returns to international capital markets after decades of being shut out because of the 2001 financial debt crisis and protracted legal settlement. This was possible after a new administration of Mauricio Macri replaced the administration of Peronist party's Christina Kirchner, and U.S. president Obama's confidence boosting visit to Argentina.

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A son of a Pakistani immigrant who came to England in the 1960's and was a bus driver, is elected Mayor of London in May 2016. Sadiq Khan founded a human rights law firm in London.

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Annalena Baerbock, 44 years, of the Greens is Germany's nominee for president of UN General Assembly in 2025. She was nominated by chancellor Scholz. As a leader of the Greens and in the coalition government of chancellor Scholz she has tried to show that Germany is a modernizing nation and innovative more than is seen in its political class. As one of the youngest politicians she has presented Germany in a new way as a young face for Europe. DW.com shows the evolution of the Greens as a party since the 1980's. Baerbock joined the Greens at age 25, four years later in 2010 she was head of the Brandenburg state section of the party, becoming a board member of the European Green party. She is still only 44 years old. She studied public law and political science in Hamburg, and gained a Masters degree in international law at the London School of Economics, one of Germany's first leading politicians to study in Britain. She started studies for a Doctorate at the Free University of Berlin, which she left in 2013 as she was elected to the Bundestag. By 2021 Annalena Baerbock was with Robert Habeck co-leader of the party heading into the general election. At one point the Greens were polling 5 months before the 2021 election at 27% with Annalena Baerbock running for chancellor against Armin Laschet of CDU and ahead of the CDU by 3 points in Sonntag poll. The Greens came in at 15% of the vote in 2021 dropping slightly to 12% in 2025. This time the Greens will sit in the parliamentary opposition headed by Robert Habeck. ...

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Strategic siting in renewable rich areas (Dallas center the largest is in renewable rich area) and fair cost allocation to not burden small businesses and households are major issues in Data Center building. Data centers for AI -rows and rows of servers 5000 in hyperscale data centers- used 4% of the US total electricity use in 2024. This is growing rapidly. By 2030 this is expected to grow by more than double, by 133%. About 60% of this to power the servers and 30% for cooling the servers. About a third of these servers are located in Virginia, Texas and California. How will this affect Cost of Living concerns, affect electricity prices? Carnegie Mellon working with North Carolina State University did the modeling on the energy and emissions implications of data center buildup in the US in their Open Outlook Initiative. A 8% annual increase in electricity prices is expected on average and as high as 25% in Virginia by 2030.  Total of about 40% increase over 5 years. Between 2014 and 2024 10 year period average cost for a home electricity use went up 25% from $114 a month to $142. This would now go up by 40% to about $200 by 2030 in just 5 years significantly impacting cost of living in the US. In which states will it strain electricity grids? In 2023 data centers consumed 26% of the total electricity supply in Virginia. In North Dakota 15%, Nebraska 12%, Iowa 11%, Oregon 11% according to Electric Power Research Institute. What are the energy types used? Natural gas is used for 40% of the data center electricity, wind and solar 25%, nuclear 20% and coal 15%.   ...

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Finbarr O'Neill, president of J.D. Power and Associates, talks about the prospects of auto companies looking towards 2012. He talks of a 15 million car market in 2012, and says that if car companies plan on a10 million car market and pare their expenses accordingly, profitability should come back. In his view new car launches will be critical to success, and he goes over a number of the things that car companies have to get right consistently.

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A new Apple iPad tablet computer is in production in Feb 2011. It will have a built-in camera for videoconferencing and a faster processor. The new version will be thinner and lighter. It will be available through Verizon Wireless and AT&T. The price range will be similiar to the current iPad, costing between $499 and $829. Analysts estimate sales of between 27 to 35 million iPads in 2011. The iPad has so far sold 14 million units.

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World Bank estimates are for the damage from Japan's earthquake and tsunami to cost $122 billion to $235 billion, or between 2.5% and 4% of Japan's GDP. By comparison the Kobe earthquake in 1995 cost $100 billion in damages. Growth will slow in the first half of 2011 by 0.5 percentage points, but it will accelerate in the second half of 2011. Growth will also slow in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines which export to Japan.

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The 2010 census shows the Asian and Hispanic population increased in New York city. The Asian population was up 31.8%, adding 247,900 people compared to the 2000 census. The Hispanic population increased 8.1%, adding 175,500 people. The black population declined 5%, dropping by 100,859. The city now has 33% non-Hispanic whites, 29% Hispanics, 23% non-Hispanic blacks, and 12.6% Asians. The total population of New York city increased by 2.1% to 8,175,100 according to the 2010 Census count.

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A strong demand for U.S. corporate bonds in the 1st quarter 2014. Corporate borrowing on the bond market in the U.S. increased to $317 billion for the 1st quarter, according to Dealogic, the highest since 2009's 1st quarter figure of $347 billion. Combining price appreciation and interest payments high grade U.S. corporate bonds returned 2.94% for the 1st quarter of 2014, according to Barclays PLC. In comparison the S&P 500 total return was 1.81%.

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The New York Times has lost half its share value in the last month closing at $5.72 on November 20, 2008. Its down 67% this year and reported a third quarter loss of $100 million. IT has two $400 million revolving credit accounts for short term cash needs one of which expires in May and has $398 million in short term debt on Sept 30, 2008. It is seeing a rapid drop in newspaper advertising revenue.

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Micheline Maynard gets diverse views on bankruptcy filing and bailout for General Motors and Ford. Out of hundreds of comments, (looking at the comments based on reader recommends from 70 to 15 readers recommend range), with over 90% of comments favoring no bailout money for automakers without coming to grips with problems and replacing management and the board, it is clear that readers cite in order of importance the following against the automakers. Complicity with Congress and lobbyists in keeping fuel efficiency low. This sent billions of dollars to mideast nations for oil, which in turn bloated liquidity here at home, helping fuel the cheap credit era in the US and building consumer and mortgage debt. This lack of conservation in gasoline use burdened economies around the world with high oil prices, and then hit the car companies in Detroit hard as sales of large vehicles collapsed. Its entirely the Detroit carmakers own shortsightedness they say. Second most mentioned is bad management, and bad decisions and arrogance. Third the unions bloated contracts, and bankruptcy as the only way to get rid of them. Fourth failure to make green cars. Fifth the lack of any idea what $25 or $50 billion given to GM and Chrysler would get the taxpayer, because if the market has collapsed then more money will be needed each year to pay salaries and contiinue operations in 2009, followed by 2010. The market has gone from 16 milllion to a 10 million rate in October 2008, if it drops to 8 million in 2009, it would require the companies to shrink by 50% as a rough guess, and the union contracts just negotiated would be totally inappropriate for the new market and financial conditions. Getting rid of those union contracts could only be done in a bankruptcy filing, as in bankruptcy everything would have to be done from scratch. Whereas in a bailout the unions would simply refuse to cooperate as they have done in the past. This is also what readers are saying when they say let the market economy work. A look at the reader comments on similar articles in the Washington Post and the WSJ also show an overwhelming number of readers not favoring taxpayer money for automakers without serious changes, and bringing a completely new management and board to get things off to a fresh start, with no legacy from the past. ...

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Google plans $5.7 billion buybacks of shares which boosts the stock by 9% in October 2015.

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China's CNOOC negotiates a $15.1 billion deal to buy Canadian energy producer Nexen in July 2012.

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Taiwanese company Foxconn acquired a 11% stake in Sharp in March 2012, becoming its largest shareholder.