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The approach to banking and financial regulation of the new Cameron coalition government in Britain.
05/13/2010
Both Liberals and Conservatives in the U.K. agree on a levy on the banks to raise 1 billion pounds. Liberal's Cable is the new Business Secretary and he favors shrinking the large banks and reducing systemic risk, and a separation of retail and investment banking activities. The Financial Services Authority will continue to operate and examine banks, the Bank of England will oversee systemic risk and regulation of banks.
Grouped Articles
British Treasury Targets Banks to Increase Tax Revenue
New York Times 12/04/2014
David Cameron Leads a Call to Thwart Financial Corruption
New York Times 05/12/2016
Economist 05/13/2010
A Crisis of Faith in Mervyn King, Britain's Central Banker
New York Times 02/06/2011
British banks: Vickers in a twist
Economist 01/29/2011
British Bank Proposal Expected to Include Stiff Rules
New York Times 04/07/2011
Financial Regulatory Reform Bill in Congress- April 2010.
04/16/2010
The drafting of legislation on financial regulatory refor. Proposal by Senator Blanche Lincoln for derivatives to be strictly traded on exchanges and other reforms that are being formulated.
Grouped Articles
How Wall Street Gamed Derivatives Reform
BusinessWeek 05/27/2010
New York Times 04/18/2010
Trench Warfare: Send In the Deputies
New York Times 04/16/2010
New York Times 04/18/2010
Goldman and Its Lobbyists Spurned in Fight on Bill
New York Times 04/28/2010
Republicans Allow Debate on Financial Overhaul
New York Times 04/28/2010
Expenses on technology devices and services from texting, iTunes, iPad, internet services.
02/09/2010
What an average family spends on this each year. Part of being connected and being functional in today's society say experts.
Grouped Articles
As Data Flows In, the Dollars Flow Out
New York Times 02/09/2010
Under the Hood of Apple's Tablet
Wall Street Journal 03/16/2012
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
German reaction to the debt crisis in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy.
04/09/2009
Germany said to be turning nationalistic in this crisis, seeing Germany's economic successes as its own, and not accepting the advantage of export markets in Europe in strengthening Germany's economic position.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2010
New York Times 11/03/2013
Germany's Surplus Isn't the Problem
Wall Street Journal 11/11/2013
How Italy's ENI Vastly Boosted Oil Output
BusinessWeek 04/09/2009
Greek Crisis Shows How Germany’s Power Polarizes Europe
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2015
New York Times 05/26/2010
Bubbles developing in many countries in 2010-2013
01/17/2009
China being the largest bubble developing in mid 2010. The other bubbles developing in Brazil, Canada, India, and Australia.
Grouped Articles
Central Bankers Hone Tools to Pop Bubbles
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2013
Mom-and-Pop Investors Bolt Emerging Markets
Wall Street Journal 08/22/2013
New York Times 08/22/2013
Recognizing Bubbles But Still Cautious About Deflating Them
New York Times 09/10/2014
Canada Grapples With Housing Bubble Risk
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2016
Where Will the Next Financial Bubble Be?
BusinessWeek 05/06/2010
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
An exceptional and detailed look at President Obama and his first term in office.
01/28/2008
A long informal interview with Obama by Peter Baker of the New York Times, in October 2010. Baker covers all aspects of President Obama's first term in office, and compares Obama's situation with that of his predecessors, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. He uses his personal knowledge of other Presidents to throw more light on the Obama Presidency.
Grouped Articles
Germans Loved Obama. Now We Donât Trust Him.
New York Times 06/29/2013
Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander
New York Times 10/29/2013
As Bush Settles Into Dallas, Golf Tees and Family Time Now Trump Politics
New York Times 11/02/2013
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/2013
BusinessWeek 04/06/2009
Geithner Book Reveals Consensus, Not VIsion, During Financial Crisis
New York Times 05/21/2014
China's difficult political-economic choices in the post 2010 period.
01/06/2008
The difficult choices in the new environment- transition to a new leadership, how to change the export model without serious disruptions, how to deal with western demands for balanced global growth, dealing with the inequality and corruption generated in the kind of growth China experienced (by the fiat of the State), opening up freedom of expression to curb corruption and to provide representation for hitherto blocked out voices, transition to freedom of expression and democratic processes without serious disruption to thegrowth needed for employment and improvements in the standard of living across all parts of society and regions, reducing or channelling to constructive ends prevailing nationalistic, anti-western or anti-Japanese sentiment. The new leadership of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang is expected to be more outward looking than than of Hu Jintao and Wen Biao and comes at atime when China needs to make some difficult choices about future direction.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2013
The Slowing of Two Economic Giants
New York Times 07/14/2013
Wall Street Journal 07/15/2013
How China Lost Its Mojo: One Town's Story
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
Chinaâs Economy, Back on Track
New York Times 10/04/2013
Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2013
IKB Deutsche Industrie Bank and Sachsen LB
08/20/2007
German state-owned banks that engaged in reckless risktaking and had to be supported by the German central bank to prevent complete collapse.
Grouped Articles
Debt Puts German Banks in a Bind
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2007
Europeâs Mightiest Banks Still Grapple With Crisis
New York Times 06/27/2012
Maquiladoras- foreign owned factories across the Mexico-U.S. border.
05/22/2006
The maquiladoras have recovered in 2010 after the layoffs during the global recession. These factories are competitive with China and orders can be filled faster because of fast Interstate highway connections.
Grouped Articles
Mexico and China look to trade away old rivalry - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2013
Mexico, China Seek to Jump-Start Trade
Wall Street Journal 06/04/2013
The Rise of a Chinese Worker's Movement
BusinessWeek 06/10/2010
As Ties With China Unravel, U.S. Companies Head to Mexico
New York Times 05/31/2014
U.S. Companies Are Still Rushing to Juárez
BusinessWeek 06/10/2010
Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers
New York Times 07/12/2010
Robert Gordon and other experts on the economic growth prospects for 2010 and into 2011.
04/30/2010
Gordon sees a weakening in growth from the 3.24% growth in 1st quarter 2010 (BEA numbers) as exports are not holding up and state and local government spending is deteriorating rapidly. The inventory change numbers which were signifcant this quarter as businesses replaced equipment and IT, will be winding down in size.
Grouped Articles
At Least 50 of Cityâs Senior Centers Expected to Close to Save Money
New York Times 04/30/10
Business Spending Propels Recovery
Wall Street Journal 05/01/10
Guest Contribution: Gordon Outlines Pessimist, Optimist Takes on GDP
Wall Street Journal 04/30/10
Economists React: GDP Indicates Road Ahead Still Bumpy
Wall Street Journal 04/30/10
Real Disposable Income: Bad News for Democrats?
BusinessWeek 06/03/10
Wall Street Journal 06/12/10
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
Failure to control overbilling by pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment and device makers in the health reform bill.
12/10/2009
Only $10 million annual increase to control fraud has been allocated in the bill. Its not likely to do much to control the overbilling and may be one more reason the health care reform bill will be a failure in controlling costs. Pricing of pharmaceutical products and healthcare services as the major unsolved problem in the U.S.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/21/13
BusinessWeek 12/10/09
How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care : The New Yorker
New Yorker 01/04/10
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/11
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/11
A grim diagnosis for our ailing U.S. health care system - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/28/11
Historic accord with Russia for cooperation on a new antimissile network for Europe in 2010
03/06/2009
The historic accord reached at the Lisbon NATO conference in November 2010. The anti-missile network will also cover Russia as cooperation develops. The main threat is now seen to be from Iran.
Grouped Articles
Russia Accepts Invitation to Attend NATO Summit Meeting
New York Times 10/19/10
Obama Renewing U.S. Commitment to NATO Alliance
New York Times 03/26/14
Obama Weighs Reviving Nuclear Pact as NATO Moves to Engage Russia
Wall Street Journal 03/06/09
Russia Lifts Its Ban on Delivery of S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System to Iran
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
Russian Missiles for the Ayatollah
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
Putin Lifts Ban on Russian Missile Sales to Iran
New York Times 04/13/15
The total cost to US taxpayers for Fannie and Freddie.
01/12/2009
The total cost could be $658 billion, according to a Standard and Poor's estimate in late 2010. And prove very costly for taxpayers in the USA. The government put the agencies in conservatorship during the housing crisis of 2008.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/13/13
Freddie's Profit Soars on Housing Rebound
Wall Street Journal 05/08/13
Fannie Mae to pay $59.4B to Treasury - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/13
Fannie Chief: Payout Must Not Delay Revamp
Wall Street Journal 05/10/13
Fannie, Freddie Payments Nearly Match Aid
Wall Street Journal 11/08/13
White House Rejects Fannie-Freddie Recapitalization Plans
Wall Street Journal 11/23/13
The Failure of Infrastructure Building under the Obama administration.
10/21/2008
Only a small portion- about one fifth according to one estimate- of the $787 Stimulus Bill was actually allocated for infrastructure building. And in some cases such as high speed rail only $8 billion was allocated, clearly insufficient to build a high speed rail system in te USA. And public perception is that infrastructure allocation has already taken place, so it has ceased to be a priority even though the nation's infrastructure needs rebuilding.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/06/11
A Slowdown on the Road to Recovery
Wall Street Journal 10/14/13
Obama's Infrastructure Plan: More Cash Could Hit the Road
BusinessWeek 09/08/10
Infrastructure spending: False expectations
Economist 10/23/10
Obama Successes Outweighed by Job Losses
New York Times 10/26/10
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
New York Times 01/24/11
Joseph Stiglitz on the way the Obama administration handled the economy and his vision for the future.
01/23/2008
A squandered opportunity says Stiglitz of Obama's handling of the economy. He presents his vision and solution and action plan.
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 09/06/11
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/13
Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Reich
BusinessWeek 10/21/10
Geithner's Plan: Loopholes Galore
BusinessWeek 04/01/09
New York Times 04/01/09
Voters’ Second Thoughts on Hope and Change
New York Times 11/04/14
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 05/02/13
China Manufacturers Survive by Moving to Asian Neighbors
Wall Street Journal 05/02/13
China Factories Try Karaoke, Speed Dating to Keep Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/03/13
Strains Show in China's Job Market
Wall Street Journal 06/11/13
Wall Street Journal 12/21/11
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
New York Times 05/29/10
Questions about China's one-child policy.
06/30/2006
The fertility rate is estimated by one the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to be at most 1.6, having dropped from close to 3 when the policy was introduced in 1980. Does this policy make sense as the population ages ask critics in the Chinese media? The impact of demographics on China's future.
Grouped Articles
The Slowing of Two Economic Giants
New York Times 07/14/13
Washington Post 11/16/13
China to Ease Longtime Policy of 1-Child Limit
New York Times 11/15/13
Wall Street Journal 11/16/13
Calculating Shift to What May Really Be 1.5-Child Policy
Wall Street Journal 11/16/13
Nicholas Eberstadt: China's Coming One-Child Crisis
Wall Street Journal 11/27/13
China and pollution of air and water.
05/10/2006
Use of coal-fired plants and more automobiles on Chinese streets and highways are worsening air quality in Chinese cities. Industrialization is taking its toll on air and water quality. 25% of lakes, rivers and streams have water too contaminated to be used for drinking water, according to areport by the China Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Grouped Articles
Pollution Is Radically Changing Childhood in Chinaâs Cities
New York Times 04/22/13
China Seeks to Calm Anxiety Over Rice
Wall Street Journal 05/22/13
Cadmium-Tainted Rice Discovered in Southern China
New York Times 05/21/13
Wall Street Journal 06/06/13
Air Pollution From Coal Use Cuts Lifespans in China, Study Shows
Wall Street Journal 07/09/13
Paying Auditors for Honest Appraisals
Wall Street Journal 07/18/13
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