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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 05/03/2010
Athens's Love Affair With the Euro Persists
Wall Street Journal 11/04/2013
Germany, Forced to Buoy Greece, Rues Euro Shift
New York Times 02/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 02/12/2010
Wall Street Journal 02/11/2010
Berlin's Wall Around Greek Ruins?
Wall Street Journal 02/10/2010
Larry Kotlikoff and other economists who support strong action to strip banks of risk-taking activities.
02/04/2010
Among those who support such moves are Simon Johnson at MIT, Robert Lucas at the University of Chicago, Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia. Most recently Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia and an advisor to President George W. Bush compares the action needed to breakup "too-big-to-fail" banks to the action taken by Theodore Roosevelt, see the link to Hubbard.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
How Larry Kotlikoff Would Fix the Financial System
BusinessWeek 02/04/2010
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
Ireland Crisis Might Give China Break It Seeks
Unknown 11/19/2010
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
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 01/15/2010
A Call for More Regulation at Fiscal Crisis Inquiry
New York Times 01/15/2010
SEC's Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs
Wall Street Journal 04/24/2010
SEC Settles Firing Claim For $755,000
Wall Street Journal 06/30/2010
SEC to Act Quickly on Risk Disclosure Rules
Wall Street Journal 07/10/2010
SEC Enters Overdrive to Prepare for Overhaul
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2010
The U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
01/14/2010
Phil Angelides, California state Treasurer, heads the commission. The commission will attempt to get at the roots of the financial crisis, keep the public informed about why this happened, and bring those who violated laws to the attention of the nation's law enforcement agencies.
Grouped Articles
Panel Told of F.B.I. Efforts to Fight Financial Crime
New York Times 01/15/2010
Wall St. Ethos Under Scrutiny at Hearing
New York Times 01/14/2010
Few Burns for Four Bankers on the Hot Seat
New York Times 01/14/2010
Voices That Dominate Wall Street Take a Meeker Tone on Capitol Hill
New York Times 01/14/2010
Financial Inquiry Widens to Include Past Regulators
Wall Street Journal 01/14/2010
New York Times 01/15/2010
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
Old print media.
01/11/2010
How does the old print media compare to the new online media. Who generates the news and reporting? What are the significant changes ocurring in all the tumult from new generation of readers and technological change which is shrivelling the reporting staffs of old print media.
Grouped Articles
Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information
New York Times 01/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/12/2011
The Internet Tide Hits Alabama Newspapers
New York Times 06/27/2012
Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News
The New York Times 11/07/2016
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
Growing Risks for the U.S. Economy in 2010-2012.
01/04/2010
Risks of another hit from losses on home equity loans to bank balance sheets in latter part of 2010. The situation with local and state governments in the USA cutting back significantly. The situation in Europe and an overheating Chinese economy.
Grouped Articles
The Home-Equity Hurt Ahead for Banks
BusinessWeek 04/14/2010
Beware a Bernanke-Fueled Market Bubble
BusinessWeek 05/13/2010
Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2010
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2010
Real Disposable Income: Bad News for Democrats?
BusinessWeek 06/03/2010
Wall Street Journal 06/12/2010
Worker gains in the U.S. for the decade 2000-2010.
01/01/2010
Net additions to jobs in the first decade of the 21st century is zero says Neil Irwin of the Washington Post. Numbers for the decades since the 40's shows continuous job growth before that.
Grouped Articles
U.S. economy took a dive in the 2000s, a lost decade for workers
Washington Post 01/01/2010
New York Times 01/03/2010
Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers
Washington Post 01/02/2010
New York Times 02/11/2011
Four Common Unemployment Myths
Wall Street Journal 04/06/2012
Corporate leaders and 2009.
12/28/2009
How corporate leaders see 2009 and how they coped with the downturn and what they look to for the future.
Grouped Articles
After Navigating Slump, Managers Ponder Next Moves
Wall Street Journal 12/28/2009
CEOs See Some Light After a Dismal 2009
Wall Street Journal 12/28/2009
New York Times 11/05/2011
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 12/21/2013
BusinessWeek 12/10/2009
How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care : The New Yorker
New Yorker 01/04/2010
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2011
A grim diagnosis for our ailing U.S. health care system - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/28/2011
The U.S. federal mortgage loan modification program in 2010.
06/12/2009
The dim prospects for mortgage loan modification programs of the Obama administration. Two out of three loan modifications under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) program expected to fail, and the failure under HAMP to move quickly by dealing directly with homeowners.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/31/2013
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
High Default Rate Seen for Modified Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
New York Times 08/21/2010
Obama Successes Outweighed by Job Losses
New York Times 10/26/2010
State Attorneys General Take Helm in Mortgage Mess
New York Times 10/29/2010
Guide to Cloud Computing.
02/08/2010
Grouped Articles
A Price War Erupts in Cloud Services
Wall Street Journal 04/16/14
Silver Linings in Big Cloud Spending
Wall Street Journal 04/27/15
'Cloud Computing': What Exactly Is It, Anyway?
Wall Street Journal 02/08/10
Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals
New York Times 12/11/11
Citrix Turns to Start-Ups to Stay Hip
Wall Street Journal 06/20/12
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
Diamond and Kashyap on the banking crisis and possible ways to frame solutions.
01/20/2010
Ways to structure a bank tax.
Grouped Articles
15 Economists Issue Crisis-Prevention Manual
New York Times 06/15/10
New York Times 01/20/10
When a Nobel Prize Isnât Enough
New York Times 06/05/11
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
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
California's bond issuance to meet budget shortfall
01/14/2010
Grouped Articles
Brown Set for Victory in California Budget Fight
Wall Street Journal 06/12/13
California's Big Sale Tests Muni-Bond Market
Wall Street Journal 11/16/10
California Bond Woe Bodes Ill for States
Wall Street Journal 11/18/10
California Bond Woe Bodes Ill for States
Wall Street Journal 11/18/10
Heat Stays on California $10 Billion Note Offering
Wall Street Journal 11/19/10
How to Revive the California Dream
Wall Street Journal 01/10/11
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
Avatar, James Cameron's movie, as a movie with aglobal dimension in sales.
01/05/2010
Sales in countries like Russia, Brazil, and other places overseas helped push sales over $1 billion, with foreign sales comprising two thirds of sales. The movie's anticapitalist message also fits the times and is especially popular overseas, with greedy capitalists trying to mine amineral on another planet and displacing the people living there.
Grouped Articles
Behind Momentum of 'Avatar' Is a Growing Audience Abroad
Wall Street Journal 01/05/10
Another Top Police Official Resigns in British Scandal
New York Times 07/18/11
Buddhism in Japan.
01/03/2010
The ancient city of Nara, with a $100 million investment to recreate parts of the city which saw the advent of Buddhism to Japan. This is the 1300th anniversary for this historic city.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 01/03/10
New York Times 03/22/12
Serbia and the European Union.
12/29/2009
Visa free travel, entry into the EU, efforts to integrate Serbia into Europe.
Grouped Articles
Serbia, Kosovo Advance Toward Bloc
Wall Street Journal 04/23/13
How to Mend Balkan Wounds for Good
New York Times 05/09/13
Serbia's prime minister Charts an Uncertain Course West
Wall Street Journal 05/09/15
Serbia’s Ruling Pro-European Party Appears Headed for a Win
New York Times 04/24/16
A pro-Europe prime minister wins a second term in Serbia
Economist 04/29/16
Unknown 12/29/09
Customer Innovation Centers.
12/27/2009
Centers that 3M has around the world that promote face to face interaction with customers, and enable adeeper awareness of how customers use a company's product.
Grouped Articles
3M Goes on Spending Spree in Bid to Ramp Up Growth
Wall Street Journal 09/10/10
3M Brings Along the Basics As It Balances New and Old
Wall Street Journal 11/01/10
3M’s Image Problem: Its Products Are Everywhere, but Often Overlooked
Wall Street Journal 03/11/15
Seeing Customers as Partners in Invention
New York Times 12/27/09
3M to Gain Broader Presence in Office-Supply Sector
Wall Street Journal 01/04/12
CEO's Growth Pitch for 3M Proves Hard Sell
Wall Street Journal 01/23/12
The state attorneys general in the U.S. and the subprime lending and foreclosure crises and mortgage settlements.
12/08/2009
Federal regulators and the Bush and Obama administrations failed miserably to help homeowners achieve loan modifications. This with the false belief that putting homeowners out of their homes would actually speed up a recovery, considering the huge scale of foreclosures in the USA , the high unemployment and other problems hitting the economy. Feldstein's consistent arguments for homeowner relief throughout 2008 and 2009- considering the large number of homeowners under water- as the mortgage crisis unfolded, were ignored by the Bush and Obama administrations. See the comparisons to Japan's lost decade, as the lack of recovery in housing adds to problems with job losses. The lawsuits, legal action and mortgage settlements facing banks as they make their way through the mortgage mess.
Grouped Articles
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
Wall Street Journal 12/31/13
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/10
Banks Keep their Mortgage Litigation Reserves a Secret
New York Times 01/16/14
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/14
BP’s Cuts May Wound Portfolio Recovery
Wall Street Journal 02/04/15
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