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George Papandreou's leadership during the Greece crisis- 2010-2011
06/15/2010
Papandreou has provided leadership on the issues facing Greece by walking the talk, with straight talk about the action needed, consulting economic experts in America who are in his inner circle, and working with European leaders for solutions. He has kept his profile modest and set a role model for his ministers and public officials.
Grouped Articles
George Papandreou Finds Balm for Greece Deficit
New York Times 06/15/2010
BusinessWeek 06/24/2010
At Impasse, Greek Leader Vows to Reset Cabinet
New York Times 06/15/2011
Greek Leader Faces Key Confidence Vote
Wall Street Journal 06/21/2011
Wall Street Journal 06/21/2011
New York Times 06/21/2011
Andy Grove and the scaling up at home that American companies need to do.
05/29/2010
Andy Grove brushes off talk of sending technologies and jobs much needed at home to China, with the talk he hears of "a China strategy." He doesn't see how an America with high paying jobs and mass of unemployed could work. He says American companies have failed to scale up, the way Intel did in the seventies. For every Apple employee there are 10 employees in China working on Mac's, Iphones, and Ipads. The idea of manufacturing as not important is misguided and he would like to see America rebuild its industrial base.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Apple Says App Store Sales Rose 50% in 2014
Wall Street Journal 01/09/2015
After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade
New York Times 03/09/2016
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs
BusinessWeek 07/01/2010
Yuan Revaluation for China's Own Sake
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Drug and Alcohol abuse on American university and college campuses.
04/26/2010
Deaths of two students at Reed College in Oregon and other similiar situations.
Grouped Articles
Reed College’s President Is Told to Crack Down on Campus Drug Use
New York Times 04/26/2010
Expert opinion on the appreciation of the yuan.
03/29/2010
One view from Yale University is that an appreciation of China's currency will not have alarge impact on American jobs, which is the opposite of what is generally thought.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/04/2011
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2010
Europeâs Debt Crisis Is Casting a Shadow Over China
New York Times 05/17/2010
The Long View of Changes in Chinaâs Currency
New York Times 09/21/2010
An Accord (and Lessons) to Remember
Wall Street Journal 09/21/2010
China's Dangerous Overvaluation
Wall Street Journal 02/26/2014
David Stockman, Reagan's Budget Director prodigy, on bank behaviour and solutions to the banking and economic crisis.
01/20/2010
Stockman takes on the banks as instruments of the impoverishment of the U.S. economy and of the American middle class. He derides the loose monetary policy of the Fed, that has encouraged insane and socially unproductive behaviours of the American banks.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2013
New York Times 07/21/2011
Taxing Wall Street Down to Size
New York Times 01/20/2010
Four Deformations of the Apocalypse
New York Times 07/31/2010
Tom Keene Talks with David Stockman
BusinessWeek 08/12/2010
Opinions Are Split on Fed Policy Move
Wall Street Journal 11/01/2010
China's car market 2010-2015
01/12/2010
China's car market surpassed the size of the American market in 2009. Sales of cars in China's market increased at a breathtaking pace in the last decade, surpassing the U.S. Sales declined in 2015 with the economic slowdown.
Grouped Articles
Auto Sales Keep Humming in China
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Territorial Dispute Continues to Affect Japanese Car Sales in China
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
Renault to Focus on Building SUVs in China
Wall Street Journal 12/16/2013
Chinese Car Buyers Should Keep On Motoring
Wall Street Journal 12/26/2013
China Car Sales Driven Lower by Slowing Economy
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2015
China Tops U.S. in Vehicle Sales, Aided By Government Incentives
Wall Street Journal 01/12/2010
Robert Lighthizer and other experts call for trade and globalization practices that work for the U.S.
01/06/2010
The failure of the establishment of both parties in the USA to take action in the face of the loss of 5.6 million jobs in the last decade, with $4.3 trillion in trade imbalances. An issue which resonates with voters in the US and could lead to a fundamental realignent of American attitudes to globalization and free trade. The feeling that the free-trade deck is stacked against the USA by Asian countries. China's efforts to keep the yuan dollar exchange rate at levels that favor exports. China's accumulation of over $3 trillion in dollar reserves that are parked mostly in Treasury's that keep U.S. interests low. Distortons in the global economy from the failure to rebalance the world economy hurts China and the U.S.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/04/2011
US-China trade relations: Speak less softly, carry a stick
Economist 09/25/2010
New York Times 09/30/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
The Engine That Pulled Us Out of Recession
Wall Street Journal 03/19/2015
What’s Our Duty to the People Globalization Leaves Behind?
New York Times 01/26/2016
The national mood in America- political processes and society.
09/29/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/29/2009
New York Times 11/17/2009
New York Times 12/18/2009
Politics in the Age of Distrust
New York Times 01/22/2010
Fragility of social cohesion in the U.S. with unemployment concentrated in the lower middle and working classes.
03/11/2009
Figures from the Center of Labor Market Studies of Northeastern University in Boston showing unemployment of 9% in the $40,000 to $50,000 annual household income group and going up to 31% at the lowest income group. Higher inequality as differences in education between lower income and higher income Americans grows. The problem of the long term unemployed is a serious one.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
New York Times 06/22/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/2013
Countrywide, its founder Angelo Mozilo, and Bank of America
01/05/2009
Countrywide is now a unit of Bank of America. Countrywide became known for questionable practices in the mortgage lending business. Countrywide turns out to be a failed and dangerous acquisition for Bank of America.
Grouped Articles
BofA's Blunder: $40 Billion-Plus
Wall Street Journal 06/29/2012
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Court Weighs Penalty in Bank of America 'Hustle' Case
Wall Street Journal 12/06/2013
Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Settles Fraud Case for $67.5 Million
New York Times 10/15/2010
Bank of America to Pay $6.3 Billion To Settle Mortgage Securities Suit
New York Times 03/26/2014
BofA Deal With U.S. Is Hung Up Over Penalties Tied to Countrywide, Merrill
Wall Street Journal 07/29/2014
Robert Shiller on the Mood of America and the Economy.
03/02/2008
Its the hearts and minds of the people that are the thing takes makes an economy or country tick not just use or overuse in recent years of financial incentives. Shiller and other economists make this point.
Grouped Articles
Robert Shiller: A Skeptic and a Nobel Winner
New York Times 10/19/2013
How a Bubble Stayed Under the Radar
New York Times 03/02/2008
The Real Mandate Is to Bridge the Wealth Gap
New York Times 11/09/2008
To Build Confidence, Aim for Full Employment
New York Times 12/14/2008
Animal Spirits Depend on Trust
Wall Street Journal 01/27/2009
It Pays to Understand the Mind-Set
New York Times 03/29/2009
Changes in China's factories in 2010-2013. Changing manufacturing.
01/05/2008
Conditions at Hon Hai and a strike at Honda are part of a changing picture of worker dissatisfaction with wages and discipline at Chinese factories. The period of low prices and worker discipline of the kind that prevailed for several decades of industrialization appears to be closing. The Chinese government is also having second thoughts as America and Europe are no longer the growing markets they used to be, and as it weighs a policy shift to domestic consumption.
Grouped Articles
China: A Billion Strong but Short on Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/02/2013
China Manufacturers Survive by Moving to Asian Neighbors
Wall Street Journal 05/02/2013
China Factories Try Karaoke, Speed Dating to Keep Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/03/2013
Strains Show in China's Job Market
Wall Street Journal 06/11/2013
Wall Street Journal 12/21/2011
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
New York Times 05/29/2010
Target stores.
05/07/2007
Retailing giant Target and changes in its strategy to adjust to the frugal American consumer. The new retailing environment in America.
Grouped Articles
Target Earnings Rise 14% on Pickup In Credit Cards, Cost-Cutting Efforts
Wall Street Journal 08/19/2010
Target Tests Small Store for Urban Shoppers as Young People Pick Cities Over Suburbs
New York Times 01/16/2014
Target's Data Breach Adds to CEO's Sack of Woe
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2014
Target Earnings Slide 46% After Data Breach
Wall Street Journal 02/27/2014
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2007
Pharmacies Fight Tough Battle on Generic Prices
Wall Street Journal 12/22/2008
Dysregulation Nation
06/14/2010
Judith Warner's phrase and description for the cultural phenomena facing America in 2010 captures the nature of the problems needing attention.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 06/14/10
Warner Music Nears a Sale to Access
New York Times 05/05/11
After the reforms: Safer, but not yet safe enough
Economist 05/21/11
Reregulation: A dangerous embrace
Economist 05/22/11
Wall Street Journal 08/04/11
Time Warner Reports Double-Digit Revenue Increase, Expects More
New York Times 08/03/11
The Anglo -Afghan Wars and the American experience in Afghanistan.
05/09/2010
Dalrymple documents that experience.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 05/09/10
Simon Johnson and other experts on the capital shortfall and banking crisis in the U.S.
04/15/2010
Johnson points to irreversible damage from the lack of aggressive action with the large banks from the Obama administration. Johnson pointed to the problems with too big to fail banks. now he and Peter Boone give a lucid explanation on the big picture facing America in relation to the task of aggressive action to resolve the banking problem.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/13
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/10
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/10
BusinessWeek 04/15/10
Jamie Dimon: Americaâs Least-Hated Banker
New York Times 12/01/10
After the reforms: Safer, but not yet safe enough
Economist 05/21/11
Views of America's renewal needs and what can be done.
02/05/2010
Eric Schmidt of Google and others like James Cameron on NASA share their ideas.
Grouped Articles
Erasing our innovation deficit
Washington Post 02/09/10
James Cameron - The right way forward on space exploration
Washington Post 02/05/10
The third-party stump speech we need - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/11
Rich Karlgaard: The Future Is More Than Facebook
Wall Street Journal 05/17/12
Sheila Bair, chairwoman, FDIC
01/15/2010
Sheila Bair provides leadership in efforts to reform the seriously flawed American financial regulatory scheme. She heads the FDIC.
Grouped Articles
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/13
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Wall Street Journal 09/10/13
Panel Told of F.B.I. Efforts to Fight Financial Crime
New York Times 01/15/10
A Call for More Regulation at Fiscal Crisis Inquiry
New York Times 01/15/10
Wall Street Journal 02/18/11
Bair's Legacy: An FDIC With Teeth
Wall Street Journal 07/07/11
U.S.-Japanese relations.
01/07/2010
Relations between the United States and Japan as the Hatoyama administration takes a more independent approach to Japanese-American relations.
Grouped Articles
Japanâs Premier Will Quit as Approval Plummets
New York Times 06/01/10
Seoul Scores Victory in Textbook War Against Japan in U.S.
Wall Street Journal 02/08/14
China Pumps Up the Volume Against Japan
Wall Street Journal 02/08/14
An Ohio Church Puts the Yarn in Japan's 'Yarn Alive' Club
Wall Street Journal 03/04/12
Japanese Elderly Knit a Safety Net
Wall Street Journal 03/05/12
Obama Juggles Itinerary in Bid to Ease Tensions Between Two Asian Allies
New York Times 03/24/14
U.S. and China- Trade Wars.
12/30/2009
American action against products from China that are dumped on the U.S. market. The unervalued Chinese currency and subsidized exports.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/04/11
Economist 03/31/10
Europeâs Debt Crisis Is Casting a Shadow Over China
New York Times 05/17/10
How China Lost Its Mojo: One Town's Story
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
An Accord (and Lessons) to Remember
Wall Street Journal 09/21/10
US-China trade relations: Speak less softly, carry a stick
Economist 09/25/10
The failure and shrinking role of American Venture Capital- 2008-2012
04/08/2009
Grouped Articles
Venture Firms Narrow Sights in Tough Times
Wall Street Journal 02/03/13
Opening the Box on Tech Stocks' Next Move
Wall Street Journal 04/10/14
Start-Up Gets Course in Survival
New York Times 04/08/09
How Venture Capital Lost Its Way
BusinessWeek 11/19/09
Ditching the Courtroom for California Pizza Kitchen
Wall Street Journal 12/28/09
Start-Ups Will Keep Struggling in 2010
Wall Street Journal 01/05/10
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.
01/18/2009
Elena Kagan was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Obama in 2010. At 51 years, she is the youngest Supreme Court Justice. Kagan's vision of justice in America differs from that of Chief Justice Roberts.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 06/29/13
New York Times 05/14/10
At Harvard, Kagan Aimed Sights Higher
New York Times 05/25/10
Kagan Says Her Path to Supreme Court Was Made Smoother by Ginsburg’s
New York Times 02/10/14
Kagan and Roberts: Similar Paths, Poles Apart
Wall Street Journal 08/06/10
Verdict on Kagan’s first year on Supreme Court - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/11
Inequality in America in 2010-2014
12/06/2008
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/12/13
The Economy Needs a Bit of Ingenuity
New York Times 08/06/10
New York Times 12/15/13
Janet Yellen Warns of Inequality Threat
New York Times 10/17/14
Bad Stock-Market Timing Fueled Wealth Disparity
Wall Street Journal 10/27/14
Outside the Spotlight, Bill de Blasio Wages a War on Inequality
New York Times 01/08/15
Robert Shiller and risks in America's future.
03/02/2008
Grouped Articles
Robert Shiller: A Skeptic and a Nobel Winner
New York Times 10/19/13
15 Economists Issue Crisis-Prevention Manual
New York Times 06/15/10
How to Fix the Economy: An Expert Panel
BusinessWeek 09/16/10
How a Bubble Stayed Under the Radar
New York Times 03/02/08
Crisis Averted. What of the Next One?
New York Times 08/10/08
To Build Confidence, Aim for Full Employment
New York Times 12/14/08
Martin Feldstein on the risks for the American Economy after failures in the Obama Economic plan.
09/12/2007
Failures to address problems on the housing front, especialy the problems for 15 million homeowners under water- see the links to opeds by Feldstein suggesting focus on these issues throughout 2008-2009. And the focus on health care which diverted attention from this problem and the problem facing bad loans in commercial real estate. Other problems are failure to get bank lending up for businesses. And the failure of Obama health care plans to control the increase in the nation's surging health care spending, instead increasing the deficit to unsustainable levels. Public sentiment as shown in WSJ/NBC polls confirm Feldstein's sense of the situation.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/08/13
From President Obama, Economic Clarity but Little Courage
Washington Post 04/15/09
Wall Street Journal 09/12/07
How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03/07/08
Wall Street Journal 02/20/08
Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
Wall Street Journal 04/15/08
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