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In the past decade China's consumption as percentage of GDP drops 10% to 37%, America's rise to 96%.
11/26/2008
This leads to the global imbalance in savings that London B-School's Prof. Portes complains about. Cross border flows fro, Asia to the West reach 3% of global GDP, pumping extra money into the US banking system, and the European banking system leading to bad lending and a consumption binge. The reluctance of China and the U.S. to change the staus quo till things simply collapsed.
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Imbalance in Nations' Savings Clouds Forecasts for Recovery
Wall Street Journal 03/23/2009
Global Economy: No Help from China's ConsumersBusinessWeek 11/26/2008
A rescue plan would involve dbtholders, unions, and management all taking a haircut.
11/21/2008
How the automakers failed to convince Congress and end up in a three way battle in Congress between the Democrats, Republicans and the midwestern Congressmen with things like automakers private jets drawing scrutiny over how this industry was diffeerent in the way it did things including the higher medical benefits of union workers that burdened the companies.
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Detroit’s Bid for Aid Fails For Now
New York Times 11/21/2008
Terms of a Rescue PlanBusinessWeek 12/11/2008
GM and Ford spent $175 million lobbying in the last 10 years with focus on fighting fuel efficiency standards.
11/15/2008
A misstep that leads to falling behind the Europeans and the Japanese in innovating and investing early in the area of fuel efficiency.
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Wall Street Journal 11/15/2008
Clout Has Plunged for Automakers and Union, TooNew York Times 11/18/2008
Sheila Bair, former chairwoman of the U.S FDIC and her proposal to level the playing field for government loans to homeowners and banks
10/16/2008
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Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/13/2012
FDIC Chief Raps Rescue for Helping Banks Over HomeownersWall Street Journal 10/16/2008
Gordon Brown enjoys a moment of satisfaction as his plans are followed around the world.
10/14/2008
Gordon Brown sees the ups and downs with equanimity but he must have the satisfaction that this crisis for Europe and the world has brought out the best in him.
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British Prime Minister’s Stock Rises as His Bank Plan Lifts Stocks Worldwide
New York Times 10/15/2008
U.K. Chiefs Repair Image With BailoutWall Street Journal 10/14/2008
British Plan lifts reputation of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, his finance minister.
10/09/2008
After some fumbling in the bank run on Northern Rock, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling come up with what the Wall Street Journal calls "A Plan at Last," as if heaving a sigh of relief after Paulson and Bernanke's own fumbling with troubled assets program.
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U.K. Chiefs Repair Image With Bailout
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2008
A Plan -- at LastWall Street Journal 10/09/2008
As Feldstein and Hubbard suggest their proposals for addressing foreclosures the U.S. has done little to address it.
09/29/2008
Ruth Simon in the WSJ points out that little help is going to homeowners.
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Rescue Includes Steps to Help Borrowers Keep Homes
Wall Street Journal 09/29/2008
The Problem Is Still Falling House PricesWall Street Journal 10/04/2008
Ford's Fiesta Econetic in the US market as a small car with high mileage.
09/04/2008
With the dollar moving toparity with the pound the opportunities in bringing a high mileage diesel Fiesta to the USA market.
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The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have
BusinessWeek 09/04/2008
Sized for the TimesNew York Times 10/19/2008
The 65mpg Ford Econetic in Britain and the new diesel cars coming to the USA.
09/04/2008
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Diesel-powered cars to flood U.S.
Detroit News 12/31/2009
The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't HaveBusinessWeek 09/04/2008
Did Putin overreact in Georgia 2008 and Ukraine 2014? Russia and the dangers to the Russian economy of not maintaining good relations with the West
08/13/2008
Russia tones down its overreaction as 66% of Russians polled in June say Russian forces should not enter Ukrainian terrritory. Putin and Russians in the administration policy making may have underestimated the reaction in the U.S. as reflected in this WSH editorial saying Americans should remember the words of Gen. Lucius Clay during the Berlin Blockade and the subsequent airlift. This could be why analysts in Russia now maintain that good relations with the West must be maintained, and entry of Russian forces into Ukraine would have disastrous consequences for Russia in terms of western sentiment and foreign investor sentiment. In such a situation Germany would be likely to support the stronger U.S. position seeing this in terms of the language used in theBerlin Airlift of 1948. For Germany and Russia this would be reversing the hard won gains of building relations from the time of Brandtand Kohl till today, fifty years of effort to build better relations and economic relationships- just too much for sober heads in Moscow Paris, and Berlin to accept, and closing another chapter in Russia's interactions with the West.
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Wall Street Journal 08/13/2008
Seeing Cost of Saber Rattling in Ukraine, Putin Alters CourseNew York Times 07/11/2014
Bill Ford's committment to smaller cars and the ongoing shift across the spectrum with the Cruze at GM
07/31/2008
Bill Ford's interview with Bartiromo of CNBC and Business Week in which he outlines his struggle at Ford to focus managers on small cars and the new team of Ford, Mullaly and Farley that is focussing on small cars.
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Bill Ford on Tipping Points and Thinking Small
BusinessWeek 07/31/2008
GM plans $500M for 45-mpg small carDetroit News 08/22/2008
Drug cartels emerging in Afghaistan.
07/27/2008
The UN OFfice of Drugs and Crime ses the growth of drug cartels in Afghaistan as 10,000 tons of drugs from the opium crop have been stockpiled inside Afghistan and are controlled by narco-gangs. This is estimated as 2 years of world demand. This as efforts to curb opium growing have reduced the land devoted to the crop by 22% and reduced the crop by 10%.
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U.N. Sees Afghan Drug Cartels Emerging
New York Times 09/02/2009
Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?New York Times 07/27/2008
Israeli refiner Alon and the market supply and demand for asphalt.
07/23/2008
As more and more refiners turn the heavier oils into gasoline and diesel the supplies of bitumen for asphalt are expected to shrink leaving asphalt in short supply if demand to fix aging roads picks up.
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Oil Cost Boosts Asphalt, for Now
Wall Street Journal 07/23/2008
Israeli Refiner Expands in U.S.Wall Street Journal 07/23/2008
The collapse of share price at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup as short sellers wreak havoc.
11/22/2008
What short sellers are doing to destroy value in large financial institutions and the failure of the government and the SEC to reinstate the uptick rule remains a glaring omission.
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Shares Falling, Citigroup Talks to Government
New York Times 11/22/2008
Anatomy of the Morgan Stanley PanicWall Street Journal 11/24/2008
Gas tax that would be used for public transportation and bringing US policy in line with Europe on gas prices.
11/16/2008
How lower gas prices would not lead to a backshifting from necessary energy conservation and fuel efficency goals that are beneficial to the USA economy and to the global economy.
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How High Gas Prices Can Save the Car Industry
New York Times 11/16/2008
Clout Has Plunged for Automakers and Union, TooNew York Times 11/18/2008
Struggle for civil rights and financial rights of women in the U.S. Deep South- Linda Boggs and Rutha May Harris
11/05/2008
In Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia and other states of the Deep South women's rights and civil rights for black people were a result of decades of effort by women like Linda Boggs and Rutha May Harris, hard work against entrenched prejudice with many setbacks and resilience towards adversity, compared to the soft work of campaign strategy, image making, polling and fund raising of today.
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A Time to Reap for Foot Soldiers of Civil Rights
New York Times 11/05/2008
Ex-Congresswoman Lindy Boggs Dead at 97Wall Street Journal 07/28/2013
One of the Big Three may not survive.
10/14/2008
Talk of a possible merger between GM and Chrysler. Efforts by GM motivated by need for about $10 billion from external sources to make it through 2009. Chrysler has $11 billion in cash.
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Howes: One of Big 3 may not survive
Detroit News 10/14/2008
GM could use Chrysler's cashDetroit News 10/14/2008
Steep drop in commodity prices in the wake of a global credit crisis makes Brazil's and Mexico's currencies plunge.
10/13/2008
Drops in commodity prices lead to sharp fall in Latin currencies.
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Economist 10/16/2008
Reality Reaches Latin AmericaWall Street Journal 10/13/2008
The Uptick Rule and how it could have prevented the kind of shortselling that almost killed Morgan Stanley.
10/02/2008
Shortselling, the uptick rule and the collapse in share price at Morgan Stanley and later in November 2008 at Citigroup.
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NYSE Chief Leans Toward Uptick Rule
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2008
Anatomy of the Morgan Stanley PanicWall Street Journal 11/24/2008
Bob Woodward on decisionmaking in the Obama White House and the Bush White House
09/15/2008
In "The War Within" Woodward described how Bush persevered to get the job done right in Iraq. In "The Price of Politics," Woodward describes how Obama failed to use his presidential leadership and suthority to get all sides to reach an agreement. Bill Keller of the NYT says Obama failed to make the "unpleasant choices" a president has to make, including supporting the president's own Simpson-Bowles Commission on the U.S. deficit.
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Wall Street Journal 09/15/2008
Notable & QuotableWall Street Journal 09/07/2012
Ford Econetic which gets 65mpg with a diesel engine in the UK and the 40 mpg Fiesta for the U.S.market in 2011.
09/04/2008
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Customizers ready for launch of Ford Fiesta
Detroit News 12/31/2009
The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't HaveBusinessWeek 09/04/2008
The Cruze and Ford's Fiesta and Focus mark the shift to small cars for Detroit
08/22/2008
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For $75 million, Michigan Truck will soon roll out cars
Detroit News 08/27/2008
GM plans $500M for 45-mpg small carDetroit News 08/22/2008
The New York Times editorial faulting both Russia and Georgia shows where the position of the US and Europe may end up being.
08/12/2008
The criticism of both countries suggests that the statements that this is a resurgence of the Cold War may be overdone especially in a completely different period.
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New York Times 08/12/2008
Russia Says It Has Halted Military Action in GeorgiaNew York Times 08/13/2008
Afghanistan opium farming in the south adding another twist to the Afghan war.
07/27/2008
Schweich's and Rory's story and articles on the Afghan war and the new twists and the anitforeign Afghan sentiment. Friedman's points about the dangers of not carefully understanding what is going on in the field and finding the best way to handle it without getting caught up in popular rhetoric and mindless slogans.
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New York Times 07/30/2008
Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?New York Times 07/27/2008
Roche's integration of Genentech into its operations.
07/24/2008
During the early stages of the acquisition of Genentech questions were raised whether the bigger Swiss compay would end up stifling the research culture at Gennetech and reaearch scientists woul leave. As it turned out few have left and Roche head Severin Schwan has committed Roche to focussing on research as ahuge opportunity for pharmaceuticals as he sees drugmaking still "so crude," and the opportunities vast with advances in biotechnology, diagnostics, and genomics.
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Economist 12/10/2009
Roche's Big Hurdle with GenentechBusinessWeek 07/24/2008
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