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Ukraine + Russia Peace Reconstruction Effort Groups
Mattel's acquisition of lego type blocks maker Canada's Mega Brands
03/02/2014
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Wall Street Journal 03/02/2014
Russian intervention in Crimea to help ethnic Russians in majority regions of southern and eastern Ukraine
03/01/2014
Grouped Articles
Kremlin Deploys Military in Ukraine, Prompting Protest by U.S.
New York Times 03/01/2014
A History Lesson That Needs Relearning
New York Times 03/01/2014
Russia Moves Closer to Absorbing Crimea, Despite Sanctions
Wall Street Journal 03/18/2014
Russia Plotting for Ukrainian Influence, Not Invasion, Analysts Say
New York Times 04/09/2014
Tensions Are Writ Large Before Ukraine Showdown
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2014
Ukraine's Volunteer Soldiers Face Unexpected Foe
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2014
GDF Suez performance
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
GDF Suez Earnings: Utility Takes $20.4 Billion Write-Down
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2014
The European power generation industry
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
GDF Suez Earnings: Utility Takes $20.4 Billion Write-Down
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2014
Germany’s Top Power Utilities Face Dimmer Prospects
Wall Street Journal 03/13/2015
The culture and new management structure at Allianz's Pimco
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
Pimco's Gross Defends Competitive Culture
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2014
Wall Street Journal 04/02/2014
Pimco Rehires Former Senior Executive Paul McCulley
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2014
Bill Gross, Calpers and the End of the Investment Guru
New York Times 09/30/2014
Bill Gross May Be Gone But His Strategy Lives on at Pimco
New York Times 10/01/2014
Pimco Pulls Out of Stock Strategies
Wall Street Journal 05/14/2015
Caterpillar's diesel locomotive business
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
Caterpillar Loses High-Speed Train Contract
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2014
Spain's sale of a 7.5% stake in Bankia in Feb. 2014
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
Spain Launches Privatization of Bankia
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2014
What Spain owes the ejected Mariano Rajoy
The Economist 06/11/2018
WP's Adam Taylor gives glimpses of Ukraine's and Crimea's history with Greek, Turkish and Russian influences
02/27/2014
Under the Greeks and Romans Crimea was called Taurica. The Crimean War was was fought here in 1853 between Britain and the Ottoman Empire against Russia, when Florence Nightingale helped nurse wounded British soldiers.
Grouped Articles
To understand Crimea, take a look back at its complicated history
Washington Post 02/28/2014
In Crimea, a Long History of Russian Power Struggles
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2014
Crimea’s Bloody Past Is a Key to Its Present
New York Times 02/27/2014
Russia Moves Closer to Absorbing Crimea, Despite Sanctions
Wall Street Journal 03/18/2014
Would New Borders Mean Less Conflict in the Middle East?
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2015
Ukraine topples Communist statues but raises a bigger debate - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/2015
Airbus moving away from Europe and turning down loans from Germany and France that come with worksharing conditions
02/27/2014
Only about 10% of orders come from Europe in 2014, compared to 50% in 2004. Airbus turned down a German government offer of loans for a new A320 program so that it would not have to agree to work being done at German factories (worksharing). A confident and independent management at Airbus in 2014.
Grouped Articles
Airbus Vows to Fly With Own Wings
Wall Street Journal 02/27/2014
Air France Strife Shows Challenges for European Business
New York Times 09/17/2014
Krugman on free trade and the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Pact (TPP)
02/27/2014
Grouped Articles
In the Heat of the Pacific Trade Battle
New York Times 05/22/2015
New York Times 05/22/2015
New York Times 02/27/2014
After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade
New York Times 03/09/2016
Free Trade Loses Political Favor
Wall Street Journal 03/10/2016
New York Times 03/11/2016
LinkedIn China
02/26/2014
Grouped Articles
LinkedIn Explains Why It's Looking to China
Wall Street Journal 02/26/2014
LinkedIn Slashes Guidance; Shares Plunge
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2015
LinkedIn Gets Boost From Mobile, Overseas Users
Wall Street Journal 10/30/2015
Plans for Tesla and Panasonic to setup a joint venture for automobile electric battery production
02/26/2014
Grouped Articles
Tesla's Battery Ambitions Gets Stock Jumping
Wall Street Journal 02/26/2014
Panasonic Expects 16% Profit Rise This Full Year
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2014
Tesla and Panasonic Agree to Build Factory in U.S.
New York Times 07/31/2014
Panasonic Still Bullish on Tesla
WSJ 07/08/2016
Tesla Races to Finish ‘Gigafactory’ in Time for Model 3 Rollout
WSJ 07/25/2016
Tesla Motors performance
02/26/2014
Grouped Articles
Tesla Plans $5 Billion Battery Factory
Wall Street Journal 02/27/2014
Tesla Plans $5 Billion Battery Factory for Mass-Market Electric Car
New York Times 02/26/2014
Lithium Producer Chases Tesla’s Bold Battery Plan
New York Times 03/16/2014
Trading Winds Blow Cold for Some Hot Stocks
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2014
Does Tesla Really Need a $5 Billion Battery?
Wall Street Journal 04/02/2014
Seeing Future in Fuel Cells, Toyota Ends Tesla Deal
New York Times 05/12/2014
U.S. quarterly GDP and economic growth for 2014-2015
03/02/2014
Grouped Articles
That 2014 Growth Breakout? Not Looking Likely
Wall Street Journal 03/02/14
Wall Street Journal 05/30/14
U.S. Economic Recovery Looks Distant as Growth Stalls
New York Times 06/11/14
U.S. Economy Shrinks by Most in Five Years
Wall Street Journal 06/26/14
In U.S. Data, a Baffling Contradiction
New York Times 07/10/14
Strong Growth in G.D.P., but Some Caveats
New York Times 07/30/14
The U.S. and Russia's intervention in Ukraine
03/01/2014
Grouped Articles
A History Lesson That Needs Relearning
New York Times 03/01/14
Wall Street Journal 03/26/14
Pride, Prejudice and Putin's Predation
Wall Street Journal 03/26/14
Russia Plotting for Ukrainian Influence, Not Invasion, Analysts Say
New York Times 04/09/14
In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin
New York Times 04/19/14
U.S.-Russia Relations Come Full Circle After Ukraine
Wall Street Journal 04/21/14
France's power generation industry
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
GDF Suez Earnings: Utility Takes $20.4 Billion Write-Down
Wall Street Journal 02/28/14
Germany’s Top Power Utilities Face Dimmer Prospects
Wall Street Journal 03/13/15
The U.S. Export-Import Bank and the issues for Congress to reauthorize its charter in 2014
02/28/2014
The Export-Import Bank lending has expanded to over $150 billion to promote American business. An example of how this affects business differently in the U.S. -the bank has loaned money to Air India to finance purchases for Dreamliners from Boeing. This helps Boeing but draws protests from Delta Airlines which says this will make it difficult for it to compete with the Indian airline.
Grouped Articles
Future of Ex-Im Bank Divides Republicans
Wall Street Journal 02/28/14
Wall Street Journal 06/09/14
Boeing Optimistic That Export-Import Bank Will Get Funding
New York Times 07/13/14
Future of Export-Import Bank Is Wild Card in Key Senate Races
New York Times 08/25/14
Senate Resurrection of Export-Import Bank Goes to Divided House
New York Times 07/26/15
GE Move Rekindles Partisan Fight Over Ex-Im Bank Closure
Wall Street Journal 09/16/15
2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona- lack of innovation as smartphone wave's first phase ends
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
Missing at Mobile World Congress: Innovation
Wall Street Journal 02/28/14
GDF Suez management
02/28/2014
Grouped Articles
GDF Suez Earnings: Utility Takes $20.4 Billion Write-Down
Wall Street Journal 02/28/14
Obama's "My Brothers Keeper" 5 year $200 million effort to help black and minority youth
02/27/2014
Grouped Articles
Obama Starts Initiative for Young Black Men, Noting His Own Experience
New York Times 02/27/14
Blacks, Obama and the Election
New York Times 11/02/14
Raised Hands, and the Doubts of a Grand Jury
New York Times 11/29/14
Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy
New York Times 12/08/14
Seattle Police Chafe Under New Marching Orders
Wall Street Journal 12/31/14
Not There Yet on Equal Opportunity
Wall Street Journal 10/21/15
The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, and policies to widen the trading range for the yuan in 2014
02/27/2014
Efforts to lower the value of the yuan and widen the trading range in Feb. 2014 by the PBOC.
Grouped Articles
China Intervenes to Lower Yuan
Wall Street Journal 02/27/14
In China, Shaking Up Currency’s Strength
New York Times 03/16/14
Falling Yuan Curbs Cash Entering China
Wall Street Journal 03/20/14
Crossing China's Big Red Currency Line
Wall Street Journal 03/21/14
Deutsche Bank Economist to Join China's Central Bank
New York Times 04/09/14
China Takes a Smoother Path to Currency Devaluation
Wall Street Journal 11/25/15
Issues raised in Letters to the Editor of the NYT and the WSJ on the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Pact (TPP)
02/27/2014
The issues raised cover worker protections, and also include some that are not frequently mentioned. Including the right granted to large corporations in TPP to sue the U.S. and other governments on issues where the governments have acted in the public interest as it relates to the environment, health, safeguards related to poor industry practices. A letter to WSJ says president Obama is doing this to look like a centrist president for his legacy, and not for free trade. Separately Krugman points to the issue of intellectual property rights enforcement that has the potential of making it harder to provide access to modern medicine to people in developing countries, a serious pitfall. Response to criticism by the Obama administration has generally talked about the merits of free trade which are generally accepted, and not the specific provisions, or the context in which most of the gains in free trade have already been made in the seven decades to 2015 and the remaining gains are much smaller coming with some losses. The global economy now benefits more from investments in infrastructure both in developing and advanced economies, which is why China's Infrastructure Investment Bank has received such wide support, including EU countries and India. The Obama administration has failed to make the case for investment in infrastructure to the American public, at a time when large productivity gains can be made here following about 2 decades of neglect. A similiar situation exists in Germany, and is especially true of Latin American countries which have serious infrastructure problems that reduce economic growth.
Grouped Articles
In the Heat of the Pacific Trade Battle
New York Times 05/22/15
New York Times 05/22/15
New York Times 02/27/14
No Obama Tears for TPA or the TPP
Wall Street Journal 05/22/15
Obama Presses Currency Compromise in Trade Pact
Wall Street Journal 05/24/15
Pelosi Rejects Appeals, Hands Obama a Trade Defeat
Wall Street Journal 06/13/15
Airbus speeds up production of A320 in 2014
02/27/2014
Grouped Articles
Airbus Vows to Fly With Own Wings
Wall Street Journal 02/27/14
Ukraine and the divisions between the western part of Ukraine and the southern Russian speaking Crimea region
02/26/2014
About 30% of Ukrainians have Russian background and the people in Crimea see themselves as closer to Russia. Under the Hapsburgs eastern Ukraine developed strong nationalism. Many of the protesters were from the east. Many educated Ukrainians including those with Russian background see their goal as becoming an open tolerant democracy.
Grouped Articles
Ukraine and the Perils of Division
New York Times 02/26/14
To understand Crimea, take a look back at its complicated history
Washington Post 02/28/14
In Crimea, a Long History of Russian Power Struggles
Wall Street Journal 02/28/14
A History Lesson That Needs Relearning
New York Times 03/01/14
Russia Moves Closer to Absorbing Crimea, Despite Sanctions
Wall Street Journal 03/18/14
Russia Plotting for Ukrainian Influence, Not Invasion, Analysts Say
New York Times 04/09/14
A different view on yuan appreciation in 2014-2015
02/26/2014
Grouped Articles
China's Dangerous Overvaluation
Wall Street Journal 02/26/14
Falling Yuan Curbs Cash Entering China
Wall Street Journal 03/20/14
Why China Shifted Its Strategy for the Yuan, and How It Backfired
Wall Street Journal 01/10/16
Chinese Official: Bets Against Yuan Are ‘Ridiculous and Impossible’
Wall Street Journal 01/12/16
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