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Assessment of Financial reforms bills in Congress- June 2010.
04/16/2010
Christopher Whalen of the Institutional Ris Anlayst sees the reform bills as inadequate to meet a future crisis. And watered down in Congressional negotiation, responding more to symptoms than the root causes of the last crisis.
Grouped Articles
Trench Warfare: Send In the Deputies
New York Times 04/16/2010
New York Times 04/18/2010
A Dubious Way to Prevent Fiscal Crisis
New York Times 06/04/2010
The Fates and Faces of the Affected
Wall Street Journal 06/07/2010
Financial Bill Would Create World Model, Volcker Says
New York Times 06/09/2010
Giving In on Trading, Banks Focus on Other Losses
New York Times 06/14/2010
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 08/25/2013
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2010
BusinessWeek 04/15/2010
Jamie Dimon: Americaâs Least-Hated Banker
New York Times 12/01/2010
After the reforms: Safer, but not yet safe enough
Economist 05/21/2011
India's Retail Industry.
04/12/2010
Wal-Mart style supermarkets in India.
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart Drops Ambitious Expansion Plan for India
New York Times 10/09/2013
Wall Street Journal 10/10/2013
Grocery retailing in India: A long way from the supermarket
Economist 10/17/2014
Retailing in India: Bharti looks to Future
Economist 05/09/2015
In India, Wal-Mart Goes to the Farm
New York Times 04/12/2010
Economist 05/20/2010
IMF in the Eurozone financial crisis of 2010-2012
03/03/2010
Aid package to Greece and funds for other eurozone countries. The IMF's involvement in protecting the eurozone.
Grouped Articles
A Warning Light to Alert the I.M.F.
New York Times 09/21/2011
EU Dismisses IMF's Criticism On Greek Bailout
Wall Street Journal 06/07/2013
Policy âTroikaâ for Europe Financial Woes at Odds
New York Times 06/07/2013
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2010
Greece Can Learn IMF Austerity from Turkey
BusinessWeek 05/27/2010
Past Rifts Over Greece Cloud Talks on Rescue
Wall Street Journal 10/07/2013
U.S. politics and Toyota
02/19/2010
Efforts in Congress and in the government that favor domestic makers at a time of Toyota recalls.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 02/19/2010
Toyota Gets on Trump’s Good Side With $1.6 Billion U.S. Factory
WSJ 08/04/2017
Failure of the N.H.T.S.A. in the Toyota unintended acceleration and braking failure complaints.
02/10/2010
The NHTSA failed to take any action against Toyota when the company stalled for years in providing information from Japan to NHTSA investigators. Safety complaints were left unanswered, and investigations incomplete, and no effort was made to require Toyota to provide answers from Japan where quality matters are centralized. It took Toyota a long time to make the recalls and acknowledge the truth of complaints.
Grouped Articles
Detroit News 03/01/2010
Toyota Nears $1 Billion Deal to End Probe
Wall Street Journal 02/08/2014
Obama Names Fatigue Specialist to Lead Traffic Safety Agency
New York Times 11/19/2014
Federal Auditor Finds Broad Failures at N.H.T.S.A.
New York Times 06/19/2015
Safety Agency Scrutinized as Toyota Recall Grows
New York Times 02/10/2010
Regulators Hired by Toyota Helped Halt Investigations (Update3)
BusinessWeek 02/12/2010
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
Stories of prisoners fighting for Human Rights, Democracy and Good Governance.
02/07/2010
From Burma, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Haiti and other places where human rights advocates have spent time in prison. The stories all are inspired by the day when Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, and the smile on his face, after years of repression and confinement.
Grouped Articles
Unable to Visit With Mandela, Obama Honors His Legacy
New York Times 06/29/2013
New York Times 06/29/2013
Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: Freedom’s Dominoes
New York Times 02/07/2010
Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2013
Actor's Journey in Mandela's Shoes
Wall Street Journal 11/22/2013
Subianto Haunted by Past Abductions
Wall Street Journal 07/05/2014
Negative Equity in homes as a huge drag on the economy.
01/24/2010
2.4 million foreclosures estimated for 2009 by Moody's Economy.com on top of 2 millon in 2008.
Grouped Articles
Second-Lien Loans May Prompt New Losses for Banks
New York Times 07/16/2011
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
Underwater, but Will They Leave the Pool?
New York Times 01/24/2010
Anger Over Foreclosures Exposes Political Divisions
New York Times 10/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2010
A brief history of reform efforts in US health care, retrospective look at a time of deadlock.
01/20/2010
Leonhardt looks at the history of reform efforts and puts it in perspective.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 01/20/2010
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2011
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
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 07/31/2013
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
Panel Told of F.B.I. Efforts to Fight Financial Crime
New York Times 01/15/2010
A Call for More Regulation at Fiscal Crisis Inquiry
New York Times 01/15/2010
Wall Street Journal 02/18/2011
Bair's Legacy: An FDIC With Teeth
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2011
2010 high Inflation and asset price bubbles in in India and China, and low or no inflation in Europe, Japan and the USA.
01/14/2010
Wide divergence in conditions and the prospects of tightening credit in Asia affecting export prospects of the USA which depends on exports for half the growth generated in 2009 and early 2010 according to Commerce Department figures.
Grouped Articles
Japanese Economic Data Give Abe a Lift
Wall Street Journal 06/10/2013
Central Bankers Hone Tools to Pop Bubbles
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2013
India's Central Banker Lobbies Fed
Wall Street Journal 10/13/2013
Staying Away from Indian Bonds
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2013
Corrosive Inflation Eats at Developing World
Wall Street Journal 02/11/2014
Japan and China: Edging closer
Economist 10/06/2014
The performance of socially conscious economies of Europe and the U.S. economy compared.
01/11/2010
Why Europe compares favorably with the US economy in areas like unemployment when looking at the 24-54 working age group, technology adoption, economic growth when you factor out population growth in the USA, and with higher taxes offset by social benefits for large segments of society.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/13/2013
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
Growth isn’t enough to help the middle class - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/14/2013
New York Times 01/11/2010
New York Times 02/09/2010
Comparative Advantage and American Jobs
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2011
Simon Johnson and other experts on the debt crisis in Europe.
04/15/2010
Simon Johnson, Peter Boone and other experts unravel the debt crisis in Greece and in other European countries to give a lucid explanation of what happened and what to expect.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/29/10
Greece, the Latest and Greatest Bubble.
New York Times 04/29/10
As Greek Drama Plays Out, Where Is Europe?
New York Times 04/29/10
New York Times 04/30/10
BusinessWeek 04/15/10
Economist 04/29/10
Experts on China and the USA in 2010 and beyond.
04/15/2010
Charlie Rose talks to the Prime minister of Singapore on China in the world in 2010 and beyond.
Grouped Articles
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: The View from Singapore
BusinessWeek 04/15/10
Chinese Economy Treads Risky Path. (Ask Japan.)
New York Times 05/25/10
Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession
Wall Street Journal 05/24/10
New York Times 09/25/10
Fed’s $2 Trillion May Buy Little Improvement in Jobs
BusinessWeek 10/07/10
Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong Looks Ahead
BusinessWeek 01/13/11
The Crisis of the Individual Investor.
03/30/2010
This crisis is most acute for firms like Schwab which pioneered individual investing after 1982. The violent nature of markets in the post 2008 period.
Grouped Articles
Low Interest Rates Are Squeezing Seniors
Wall Street Journal 03/30/10
Ten Stocks to Own During a Market Correction
Wall Street Journal 02/08/14
Wall Street Journal 03/05/12
Wall Street Journal 04/19/14
Advice After Stock Market Drop: Take Some Deep Breaths, and Don’t Do a Thing
New York Times 08/21/15
Chuck Schwab Is Worried About Small Investors. Should We Worry Too?
BusinessWeek 05/27/10
The new administration of Naoto Kan in Japan.
02/24/2010
A new administration committed to reverse decades of heavy public spending and issuance of debt to finance it. Public debt at $9.7 trillon is bout twice the national GNP. Kan assumed the prime ministers position when Hatoyama resigned, after only 8 months in office.
Grouped Articles
Once Mighty Party Falls, and Worries Grip Japan
New York Times 02/24/10
Wall Street Journal 06/10/10
Wall Street Journal 07/10/10
Japanâs Prime Minister Warns That Debt Could Bring a Crisis Like That of Greece
New York Times 06/11/10
Japan's New Leader Seeks Bipartisan Attack on Debt
Wall Street Journal 06/12/10
Japan Enlists Executives as Envoys
Wall Street Journal 06/15/10
Greece and the European Union.
02/12/2010
The difficult economic situation in Greece and risks it poses for the Euro and the EU.
Grouped Articles
Athens's Love Affair With the Euro Persists
Wall Street Journal 11/04/13
Greece’s Woes May Give Pause to Euro Zone Candidates
New York Times 02/12/10
Wall Street Journal 02/12/10
Debt Load Hobbles Euro Zone's Prospects
Wall Street Journal 02/12/10
New York Times 02/15/10
Contemplating the Future of the European Union
New York Times 02/12/10
The European Union plans for aid to Greece.
02/10/2010
Resistance in Germany to bailing out Greece.
Grouped Articles
Germany Clears Rescue for Greece
New York Times 05/03/10
Athens's Love Affair With the Euro Persists
Wall Street Journal 11/04/13
Germany, Forced to Buoy Greece, Rues Euro Shift
New York Times 02/11/10
Wall Street Journal 02/12/10
Wall Street Journal 02/11/10
Berlin's Wall Around Greek Ruins?
Wall Street Journal 02/10/10
Toyota crisis and changes in direction for Japanese economy in 2010.
02/09/2010
Experts in Japan ponder the future direction of Japan's economy, possibly into a US style service industry dominated economy away from the mass manufacturing of the postwar era.
Grouped Articles
In Toyota Mess, Lesson for Japan
New York Times 02/09/10
Japanâs Prime Minister Warns That Debt Could Bring a Crisis Like That of Greece
New York Times 06/11/10
Electric Cars Make Japan's Gas Engine Industry Anxious
New York Times 11/02/10
Toyota's Domestic Plant Problem
Wall Street Journal 02/09/11
Shaking up Japan: Bold, or plain reckless?
Economist 02/05/11
Toyota Unveils New Business Plan
Wall Street Journal 03/09/11
Management failure at Toyota in addressing quality and safety issues- the Recall period 2009-2011
01/29/2010
Toyota's own documents reveal that managers touted the $100 million savings in limiting the degree to which Toyota would address the quality and safety issues raised by unintended acceleration and failure in braking. Toyota had hired former National Highway Traffic and Safety officials and was able to limit what it had to do to address the problem. In the end the problems would cost billions of dollars in a massive recall effort and dent its image.
Grouped Articles
Toyoda Rues Excessive Profit Focus
Wall Street Journal 03/02/10
Inside Toyota, Executives Trade Blame Over Debacle
Wall Street Journal 04/13/10
Toyota Nears $1 Billion Deal to End Probe
Wall Street Journal 02/08/14
Toyota to Resume Plant Building After Three-Year Hiatus
Wall Street Journal 04/04/15
Toyota’s Top Executive Under Rising Pressure
New York Times 02/06/10
Akio Toyoda - Toyota's plan to repair its public image
Washington Post 02/09/10
Fears that Basel III and European Banking Authority E.U. Stress Tests may not adequately reflect the risks on banks balance sheets.
01/21/2010
The situation after bailout of Irish banks in November 2010 by the EU. The Irish banks had passed European stress tests. Portuguese and Spanish banks may face a similar situation.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/16/11
Europe Fails Another Stress Test
Wall Street Journal 07/16/11
The Battle Over Bank Rules at Basel III
BusinessWeek 05/27/10
Wall Street Journal 09/13/10
Basel Rules Unlikely to Force Capital Raising
Wall Street Journal 09/14/10
Wall Street Journal 09/14/10
S.E.C.
01/15/2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission. Its role in the financial crisis and efforts to focus the S.E.C. on regulation after a period of lax regulation. The SEC under Schapiro.
Grouped Articles
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
SEC's Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs
Wall Street Journal 04/24/10
SEC Settles Firing Claim For $755,000
Wall Street Journal 06/30/10
SEC to Act Quickly on Risk Disclosure Rules
Wall Street Journal 07/10/10
SEC Enters Overdrive to Prepare for Overhaul
Wall Street Journal 07/12/10
Growing Risks for the Chinese Economy going into 2010-2014
01/14/2010
One is a concern that China may like Japan in the 1980's is getting into a property and asset price bubble after aperiod of rapid industrialization and shifting of rural population to the cities. The risks of an overheating economy were growing with a 22% jump in a broad measure of money supply in March 2010.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/01/13
I.M.F. Tells China of Urgent Need for Economic Change
New York Times 07/17/13
Economist 01/14/10
BusinessWeek 04/14/10
Fear Pervades China's Stocks As Market's Gains Disappear
Wall Street Journal 05/13/10
Europeâs Debt Crisis Is Casting a Shadow Over China
New York Times 05/17/10
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 05/09/13
Territorial Dispute Continues to Affect Japanese Car Sales in China
Wall Street Journal 09/11/13
Renault to Focus on Building SUVs in China
Wall Street Journal 12/16/13
Chinese Car Buyers Should Keep On Motoring
Wall Street Journal 12/26/13
China Car Sales Driven Lower by Slowing Economy
Wall Street Journal 09/11/15
China Tops U.S. in Vehicle Sales, Aided By Government Incentives
Wall Street Journal 01/12/10
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