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06/23/2026
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Impact of Deepwater Horizon rig oil spill in Gulf of Mexico on BP.
04/29/2010
Costs to BP. Origins of the problem. Public opinion in the USA.
Grouped Articles
At BP, There’s Optimism in the Corner Office
New York Times 01/24/2014
Oil Rigs’ Biggest Risk: Human Error
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2015
BP Faces Up to $13.7 Billion in Fines in Deepwater Gulf Spill Case
Wall Street Journal 07/03/2015
Oil Spillâs Blow to BPâs Image May Eclipse Costs
New York Times 04/29/2010
Officials Assail Oil Company Over Response to Gulf Spill
New York Times 04/30/2010
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2010
Profiles of management and leadership- Edward Whitacre at GM (General Motors)
04/29/2010
Grouped Articles
Ed Whitacre's Battle to Save GM from Itself
BusinessWeek 04/29/2010
Germany's Angela Merkel's decisiveness at key moments in the eurozone crisis 2010-2012
04/29/2010
In dealing with bankers on bondholder losses for loans to Greece, with Greece's prime minister Papandreou over a proposed referendum on debt reduction, and with French president Sarkozy on bondholder losses to reduce Greek debt, at every turn Angela Merkel showed a clear decisiveness during the eurozone crisis in 2011-2012. After a no confidence vote for premier Berlusconi in Italy's parliament Merkel persuaded president Napolitano to win consensus for the formation of a new government headed by Mario Monti, EU commissioner. After earlier fumbling with the crisis in actions by Merkel in 2010, the German chancellor learned from errors and improved her handling of the eurozone crisis in 2011-2013.
Grouped Articles
Deepening Crisis Over Euro Pits Leader Against Leader
Wall Street Journal 12/30/2011
As Greek Drama Plays Out, Where Is Europe?
New York Times 04/29/2010
Germany Clears Rescue for Greece
New York Times 05/03/2010
Germans Respond to Merkel's 'Motherly' Side
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2013
German Election Overturns Political Order
Wall Street Journal 09/23/2013
Greek Crisis Shows How Germany’s Power Polarizes Europe
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2015
China's investment in its electricity grid upgrade to ultrahigh voltage lines to reduce air pollution- 2012-2020
04/29/2010
China State Grid company is the main provider of power in China. Efforts to reduce pollution in cities include building ultra high voltage lines so that electricity generation plants which use coal can be located away from major cities. Plans envisage investment of $100 billion in new ultrahigh voltage lines for power transmission from distant locations where coal and gas are produced.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/06/2013
Economist 04/29/2010
New York Times 10/25/2013
Its Growth Targets Elusive, China Focuses on Jobs and Quality of Life
New York Times 03/13/2014
For a Breath of Fresh Air in China, A Mere Four Cities Make the Cut
Wall Street Journal 08/12/2013
China Fires Away at Coal Power
Wall Street Journal 05/14/2015
How Greece's and Ireland's debt crisis affects Germany, France, Portugal and Spain.
04/28/2010
German banks have large holdings of Greek bonds, and much larger holdings of bonds from the crisis affected countries of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland.
Grouped Articles
Already Holding Junk, Germany Hesitates
New York Times 04/28/2010
Euro Rises After I.M.F. Increases Aid Pledge to Greece
New York Times 04/29/2010
As Greek Drama Plays Out, Where Is Europe?
New York Times 04/29/2010
Europe Acts Swiftly on Long-Delayed Greek Bailout
New York Times 04/29/2010
The Next Global Problem: Portugal
New York Times 04/30/2010
Portugal to cut wages, raise taxes
Wall Street Journal 05/14/2010
Sales of violent videogames to children and laws limiting such sales.
04/26/2010
Grouped Articles
Justices to Consider Law Limiting the Sale of Violent Video Games
New York Times 04/26/2010
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2011
S.E.C. and fraud settlement with U.S. banks for toxic mortgage debt
04/24/2010
Grouped Articles
SEC's Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs
Wall Street Journal 04/24/2010
Inside the End of the U.S. Bid to Punish Lehmann Executives
New York Times 09/08/2013
S.E.C. Tension As It Examined Mortgage Cases
New York Times 12/19/2013
Banks Keep their Mortgage Litigation Reserves a Secret
New York Times 01/16/2014
An Unfinished Chapter at Countrywide
New York Times 08/23/2014
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2011
Judge Rakoff and the S.E.C.-Citicorp agreement
04/24/2010
Grouped Articles
SEC's Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs
Wall Street Journal 04/24/2010
Stern Words for Wall Streetâs Watchdogs, From a Judge
New York Times 12/16/2013
SEC-Citi Pact Rejected by Judge Rakoff
Wall Street Journal 11/28/2011
No Mr. Nice Guy—Just Ask Wall Street
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2011
Citi Ruling Could Chill SEC, Street Legal Pacts
Wall Street Journal 11/29/2011
Wall Street Journal 11/29/2011
Russia's full reopening of the domestic bond market to foreign investors in 2013
04/23/2010
Fifteen years after the Russian financial crisis of 1998, Russia will fully open its domestic bond market to foreign investors. Returns of about 7% compare favorably with the 4% returns on Italian bonds. The IMF estimate is for debt to GDP ratio to decline to 11% by the end of 2014, and it is a very different country today.
Grouped Articles
Russia, After 12 Years, Returns to Sell Bonds
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2010
Russia Looks to Borrow to Plug Funding Gap
Wall Street Journal 09/19/2013
Putin Trumpets Economic Strength, but Advisers Seem Less Certain
New York Times 10/02/2014
Debt Investors Turn Page on Russia
Wall Street Journal 12/19/2012
Robert Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, and assistant Whitney Harris
04/23/2010
Whitney did much of the investigative work to record the crimes committed by the Nazis. His book, "Tyranny on Trial," records this effort. He persevered after this in efforts to establish a permanent International Criminal Court.
Grouped Articles
Prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg Tribunals
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2010
50-Year Sentence Upheld for Ex-President of Liberia
New York Times 09/26/2013
Goldman Sachs and Germany
04/23/2010
Questions raised in Germany about Goldman Sach's deals with German banks, the city of Berlin and investments in retailer Arcandor.
Grouped Articles
In Germany, Voices Rise Against Ways Of Goldman
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2010
Growth in emerging market bonds of Brazil, India, China and Russia 2010-2014
04/23/2010
Grouped Articles
Angry young Indians: What a waste
Economist 05/16/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/22/2011
Russia, After 12 Years, Returns to Sell Bonds
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2010
Critics Decry Risks Posed by Link Between China's Banks and Bonds
Wall Street Journal 08/16/2013
Mom-and-Pop Investors Bolt Emerging Markets
Wall Street Journal 08/22/2013
New York Times 08/22/2013
The Turbulent World of Franz Goll
04/23/2010
Goll is a German who lived through Weimar, the Nazis, and the Cold War. He is a prolific diarist, and records each day what he sees in the Germany of his time. He describes the human condition in his description in 1921 of a couple moving a push cart through the snow. Of man stumbling in his way from mistake to mistake and groping desperately for a good path.
Grouped Articles
Prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg Tribunals
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2010
Militarism and Humiliation Cast Shadow on Germany
New York Times 06/26/2014
Wall Street Journal 03/18/2011
04/28/2017
April 2010 Defense Department biannual report on the war in Afghanistan.
04/29/2010
It shows little progress from the escalated effort, and the critical fact of the lack of acceptance of the Karzai government remains. Of 92 districts assessed in this report none are sympathetic to the Karzai government.
Grouped Articles
Gates Faults Obama Over Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 01/08/14
U.S. Report on Afghan War Finds Few Gains in 6 Months
New York Times 04/29/10
Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 06/02/10
Official Admits Militancyâs Deep Roots in Pakistan
New York Times 06/02/10
McChrystal article renews attention to split with Biden over Afghanistan
Washington Post 06/23/10
McChrystalâs Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama
New York Times 06/23/10
Whites in South Africa after Apartheid
04/29/2010
Grouped Articles
Economist 04/29/10
Racism outlives Mandela in rural South Africa - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/14/13
A.N.C. Loses Pretoria, South Africa’s Capital, as Setbacks Mount
The New York Times 08/06/16
China Southern Power Grid
04/29/2010
Grouped Articles
Chinaâs Push for Electric Cars Flows Through Grid Operators
New York Times 12/26/11
Economist 04/29/10
The IMF and a new approach to Greece's debt crisis
04/28/2010
Christine Lagarde says Greece needs 2 more years to achieve deficit targets on Oct 11, 2013. She says the same approach of giveing more time to Portugal and Spain applies to Greece. This puts more pressure on Germany to provide new flexibility.
Grouped Articles
EU Dismisses IMF's Criticism On Greek Bailout
Wall Street Journal 06/07/13
Policy âTroikaâ for Europe Financial Woes at Odds
New York Times 06/07/13
Charlie Rose Talks to Christine Lagarde
BusinessWeek 04/28/10
Greece Can Learn IMF Austerity from Turkey
BusinessWeek 05/27/10
Past Rifts Over Greece Cloud Talks on Rescue
Wall Street Journal 10/07/13
Watch Athens, Not Paris, This Weekend
Wall Street Journal 05/04/12
Christine Lagarde as the new head of the IMF
04/28/2010
Grouped Articles
Policy âTroikaâ for Europe Financial Woes at Odds
New York Times 06/07/13
Charlie Rose Talks to Christine Lagarde
BusinessWeek 04/28/10
Congress Can Help the U.S. By Reforming The IMF
Wall Street Journal 03/25/14
The U.S. Should Ratify Its Agreement to IMF Reform
Wall Street Journal 04/02/14
I.M.F. Chief Lagarde to Face Inquiry on â07 Accusations
New York Times 08/04/11
Lagarde: All Countries Must Help Europe
Wall Street Journal 12/16/11
Drug and Alcohol abuse on American university and college campuses.
04/26/2010
Deaths of two students at Reed College in Oregon and other similiar situations.
Grouped Articles
Reed College’s President Is Told to Crack Down on Campus Drug Use
New York Times 04/26/10
Mary Schapiro, Chairwoman U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.)
04/24/2010
Grouped Articles
SEC's Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs
Wall Street Journal 04/24/10
Inside the End of the U.S. Bid to Punish Lehmann Executives
New York Times 09/08/13
SEC Tries to Rebuild Its Reputation
Wall Street Journal 09/12/13
S.E.C. Tension As It Examined Mortgage Cases
New York Times 12/19/13
Elizabeth Warren: One Way to Rebuild Our Institutions
New York Times 01/29/16
S.E.C. Chairwoman's Ethics Under Fire
New York Times 03/08/11
Letters to the WSJ from John Bogle, Bernie Sanders and a professor at Rutgers University on the 2008 financial crisis
04/24/2010
Grouped Articles
The Public Rage Against Wall Street
New York Times 04/24/10
Wall Street Journal 05/03/15
Bernie Sanders’s Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in ’60s Vermont
New York Times 07/03/15
Democratic Party Senator Charles Schumer of New York
04/23/2010
Grouped Articles
A Wall Street Ally Balances Loyalties
Wall Street Journal 04/23/10
Russia- debt, credit ratings and borrowing costs
04/23/2010
Grouped Articles
Russia, After 12 Years, Returns to Sell Bonds
Wall Street Journal 04/23/10
Russia Says It Has Weathered the Worst of the Economic Storm
Wall Street Journal 04/03/14
Moody’s Cuts Russia’s Ratings to Brink of Junk
Wall Street Journal 01/17/15
Mr Sousa Mendes of Portugal- diplomat in Bordeaux, France, 1939-1940
04/23/2010
The heroic achievement of Portuguese diplomat Mendes in Bordeaux, issuing 30,000 visas to people persecuted by the Nazis before and during the invasion of France.
Grouped Articles
In Portugal, a Protector of a People Is Honored
New York Times 07/09/13
Prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg Tribunals
Wall Street Journal 04/23/10
U.S. midwest coal production
04/23/2010
Grouped Articles
In the Midwest, Coal Stages a Comeback
Wall Street Journal 05/05/13
Coal Falls Out of Favor As Utilities Go 'Green'
Wall Street Journal 04/23/10
Heard on the Street: U.S. Coal vs. the World
Wall Street Journal 09/22/13
In Appalachia, Coal Struggles to Compete With Natural Gas
Wall Street Journal 11/30/13
The New Future for American Coal: Export It
Wall Street Journal 03/20/14
Coal Miners Struggle to Survive in an Industry Battered by Layoffs and Bankruptcy
New York Times 07/17/15
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