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06/23/2026
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Ukraine + Russia Peace Reconstruction Effort Groups
The HP case for rape and the rape death in India in Jan 2013
01/31/2008
The Supreme Court decision in India for a HP employee rape case set a clear precedent for rape cases in India. The rape of a medical student in Jan 2013 shows the need for firm action.
Grouped Articles
Journalist Gang-Raped in Mumbai
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2013
H.P. Case to Go Forward in India
New York Times 01/31/2008
The sweeping restructuring of U.S. health care that is needed and the way patients, doctors, and hospitals would rather live with the status quo.
01/31/2008
The risks of "cosmetic" reform in the Obama administration's efforts, and the unsustainability of the current system in the costs and results it provides.
Grouped Articles
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
New York Times 01/18/2014
Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
New York Times 06/14/2009
Robert J. Samuelson - Wrong Way on Health 'Reform'
Washington Post 06/15/2009
Obama's Health Plan Needs Spending Controls, CBO Says
Washington Post 06/17/2009
Eli Lilly legal settlements
01/31/2008
Grouped Articles
Eli Lilly Enters Unusual Patent Dispute
Wall Street Journal 08/18/2013
Lilly Said to Be Near $1.4 Billion U.S. Settlement
New York Times 01/15/2009
Lilly Considers $1 Billion Fine to Settle Case
New York Times 01/31/2008
Developing new solutions to the problem of escalating health care costs in the U.S.
01/31/2008
New solutions are being developed and new ideas being tried to bring down health care costs. In many case quality can improve at lower cost or the similiar results delivered for lower cost with some other advantages inpatient focussed healthcare that improve outcomes. Pricing of pharmaceutical products and healthcare services as the major unsolved problem in the U.S.
Grouped Articles
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
New York Times 10/12/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care, Study Says
New York Times 08/16/2010
Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
New York Times 03/05/2012
Health Care: Obama's Budget Skimps on Cost-Cutting
BusinessWeek 03/05/2009
Hospitals Merge Design and Building to Cut Costs
New York Times 04/15/2009
The significance of focussing on primary care or family practice for improving health care outcomes and reducing cost in the U.S.
01/31/2008
On average patients spend only 30 minutes with family practice physicians in the U.S. compared to one hour in European countries. This results in more testing by medical specialists and less preventive care. The lack of focus on primary care in the U.S. is a glaring deficiency with large negative impact. It is evidence of the commercialization of medicine in the U.S. to the point where this poses real dangers.
Grouped Articles
Solving the Shortage in Primary Care Doctors
New York Times 12/14/2013
Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
New York Times 03/05/2012
Group Offers Doctors Bonuses for Better Care
Wall Street Journal 01/31/2008
An Rx? Pay More to Family Doctors
Wall Street Journal 01/27/2012
Consumer Spending into recession 2008
01/29/2008
Consumer Spending ingeneral and for certain industries as USA enters a recession in 2008.
Grouped Articles
TV Makers Aren't Turned Off by Slump
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2008
P&G Investors Need a Little Pampering
Wall Street Journal 04/30/2009
A Part-Time, Low-Wage Epidemic
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2012
Mervyn King on capital reserve requirements for British banks beyond 2010
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
Barclays Plans to Issue New Shares
Wall Street Journal 07/29/2013
Mervyn King's Threat to British Banking
Wall Street Journal 11/11/2010
A Crisis of Faith in Mervyn King, Britain's Central Banker
New York Times 02/06/2011
British banks: Vickers in a twist
Economist 01/29/2011
Speed Overhaul, Banker Tells U.K.
Wall Street Journal 03/02/2011
Bank reform: Commission accomplished
Economist 04/16/2011
Japan Air Lines (JAL) strategies
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/05/2012
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2010
JAL's Latest Plan Unveils Deep Cuts
Wall Street Journal 09/01/2010
Wall Street Journal 08/31/2010
JAL Charts Direction for New Budget Carrier
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2011
Japan Airlines Plans to Spend $6 Billion on New Aircraft
Wall Street Journal 02/16/2012
An exceptional and detailed look at President Obama and his first term in office.
01/28/2008
A long informal interview with Obama by Peter Baker of the New York Times, in October 2010. Baker covers all aspects of President Obama's first term in office, and compares Obama's situation with that of his predecessors, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. He uses his personal knowledge of other Presidents to throw more light on the Obama Presidency.
Grouped Articles
Germans Loved Obama. Now We Donât Trust Him.
New York Times 06/29/2013
Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander
New York Times 10/29/2013
As Bush Settles Into Dallas, Golf Tees and Family Time Now Trump Politics
New York Times 11/02/2013
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/2013
BusinessWeek 04/06/2009
Geithner Book Reveals Consensus, Not VIsion, During Financial Crisis
New York Times 05/21/2014
Japan Airlines (JAL) management
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/05/2012
Japan Airlines Plans to Spend $6 Billion on New Aircraft
Wall Street Journal 02/16/2012
JAL, a Bailout Beneficiary, Heads for a Public Offering
New York Times 07/02/2012
Tokyo Exchange Approves JAL Listing
Wall Street Journal 08/03/2012
JAL Plans an IPO to Raise $8.5 Billion
New York Times 08/02/2012
JAL Makes Tepid Return to Market
Wall Street Journal 09/19/2012
Bank of England governor Mervyn King sees the need to breakup the biggest banks.
01/28/2008
Volcker in the USA and Mervyn King in England both agree that speculative and utility banking should be separated, and too big to fail banks broken up. Regulation to prevent a future banking crisis they agree is something of an illusion.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
BOE's King: Big Banks Should Get Broken Up
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2009
Britain and Its Central Bank Disagree on Banking Laws
New York Times 10/22/2009
Less Talk, More Action Needed by Fed
Wall Street Journal 10/24/2009
Fed's Tarullo Shakes Up Bank Rules
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2009
Economist 10/26/2009
Statoil management
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
Statoil Profit Boosted by Higher U.S. Gas Prices
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2014
Statoil Tightens Its Belt as Oil Prices Plunge
Wall Street Journal 01/23/2015
Norway Angers Investors in Pipeline Network
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2015
Statoil Using Rails to Ease Bottleneck
Wall Street Journal 08/30/2012
Wall Street Journal 01/28/2008
Interview with former US President Bush in 2010.
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
As Bush Settles Into Dallas, Golf Tees and Family Time Now Trump Politics
New York Times 11/02/2013
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2010
New York Times 01/28/2008
The two US Deficit Commissions in 2010 and the Deficit from Growing Health Care Costs
01/31/2008
Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commisssion proposals, critics say, did not adequately tackle the health care part of the US Deficit. Rivlin-Domenici Deficit Commission phases out the tax exclusion on employer-subsidized health care insurance. Both fall short in addressing the health care portion of the deficit.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/11/10
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/11
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/11
Wall Street Journal 04/05/11
New York Times 04/07/11
Second Panel Calls for Cutting Military Spending
New York Times 11/17/10
Rising pension and health care costs for U.S. cities in 2011-12
01/31/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/30/13
Pension Pinch Busts City Budgets
Wall Street Journal 10/30/13
Illinois Pension Fix Faces Political Test
Wall Street Journal 12/01/13
Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future
Wall Street Journal 08/27/10
Wall Street Journal 12/24/10
Pension Issues Spice Dinner Debates
Wall Street Journal 02/18/11
Pricing of healthcare services and pharmaceuticals as the biggest problem in funding healthcare in the U.S.
01/31/2008
The cost of most healthcare services are double or higher in the U.S. than in Canada, Germany, France and Japan. By not bringing prices in line with the price in other major developed countries, the U.S. is effectively defunding infrastructure, R&D, education and other important means of improving competitiveness say experts. The methods of setting price present in these countries are notably absent in the U.S. The Obama healthcare bill and before that the Bush Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit simply leave this problem unaddressed.
Grouped Articles
Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
Wall Street Journal 07/13/11
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/13
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
New York Times 10/12/13
New York Times 12/21/13
Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care, Study Says
New York Times 08/16/10
Washington Post 09/22/15
Eli Lilly performance
01/31/2008
Grouped Articles
Lilly Plans to Lay Off 30% of Its Sales Reps
Wall Street Journal 04/12/13
Eli Lilly's Drug Assembly Line
BusinessWeek 02/25/10
Eli Lilly Enters Unusual Patent Dispute
Wall Street Journal 08/18/13
Rivals Threaten to Crowd Out Novo in Expanding Diabetes Market
Wall Street Journal 08/25/13
Eli Lilly, Unlike Rivals, Isn't Pulling Back on R&D
Wall Street Journal 10/21/13
Lilly Diabetes Drug Ruled Comparable to Market Leader
Wall Street Journal 02/25/14
U.S. healthcare insurance costs 2010-2013
01/31/2008
Grouped Articles
Lower Rise in Health Spending Predicted
Wall Street Journal 09/19/13
Surveys: Health insurance costs shifted to workers, even as premiums surge - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/28/11
A grim diagnosis for our ailing U.S. health care system - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/28/11
An Rx? Pay More to Family Doctors
Wall Street Journal 01/27/12
What to Do on the Day After ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal 04/03/12
Why Medical Bills Are a Mystery
New York Times 04/14/12
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) management
01/29/2008
Grouped Articles
Bank Bailout Blues Stall U.K. Recovery
Wall Street Journal 05/14/13
Wall Street Journal 06/13/13
New York Times 06/12/13
Royal Bank of Scotland Names New Chief Executive
New York Times 08/02/13
Wall Street Journal 12/12/13
Past Sins Haunting Royal Bank of Scotland
New York Times 01/27/14
Questions America asks it financial leaders in the light of the cratering going on in the world of finance and ordinary American's retirement savings.
01/28/2008
As a large part of 401 K's disappear and retirement savings are hurt badly Americans are asking questions of public servants and leaders in finance.
Grouped Articles
Chuck Schwab Is Worried About Small Investors. Should We Worry Too?
BusinessWeek 05/27/10
Paulson’s Deal-Making Revives Treasury’s Relevance
New York Times 01/28/08
Paulson Drove Plan to Shore Up Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
Wall Street Journal 07/15/08
Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy
New York Times 10/09/08
The Guys From ‘Government Sachs’
New York Times 10/19/08
No More Economic False Choices
New York Times 11/03/08
Hurricane Katrina and response of FEMA under the George W. Bush administration
01/28/2008
One of president George W. Bush's regrets of his administration's performance is how it handled the hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Grouped Articles
Cities' Revival Curbed By Red-Ink Budgets
Wall Street Journal 11/02/13
Katrina may be a metaphor to some, but it’s still a reality to New Orleans - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/28/15
New York Times 11/04/12
Bush Defends Legacy but Concedes Some Mistakes
Washington Post 01/13/09
New York Times 01/28/08
The U.S. in world affairs- the lack of a balanced approach from Bush to Obama
01/28/2008
U.S. leadership is needed in different ways, in Europe as it struggles with eurozone debt, in the Middle East and South Asia as it struggles to create opportunities for the fastest growing demographic in Asia, and in the Far East as the aging societies of Japan and China seek to find a way to manage the period following rapid post war growth. In the ultimate irony the U.S. finds itself making itself spending as much time and resources in recent years in a remote central Asian region that has little to do with the rest of the world.
Grouped Articles
âBeyond War,â by David Rohde
New York Times 05/03/13
Wall Street Journal 06/05/13
Germans Loved Obama. Now We Donât Trust Him.
New York Times 06/29/13
As Bush Settles Into Dallas, Golf Tees and Family Time Now Trump Politics
New York Times 11/02/13
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/13
U.S. Beefs Up Military Options for China as Obama Reassures Allies in Asia
Wall Street Journal 04/28/14
Central bank governors Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi, Stanley Fischer, Mervyn King and the MIT Economics Department
01/28/2008
Ben Bernanke and Mervyn King once shared an office as professors at MIT. Stanley Fischer was Draghi's and Bernanke's PhD. advisor. The MIT economics department fostered a view in the 1990's in which central banks played an active role when markets failed and the economy stumbled. This followed a period of post-Keynes views at the universities of Rochester, Minnesota, and Chicago, that markets operated on rational expectations and needed minimal intervention by central banks.
Grouped Articles
A Hawkish Signal Bernanke Didn't Send
Wall Street Journal 06/25/13
In Shift, Bank of England Pledges Low Rates
Wall Street Journal 08/08/13
Wanted: A Boring Leader for the Fed
New York Times 08/20/13
Stanley Fischer, Fed Nominee, Has Long History of Policy Leadership
New York Times 03/12/14
Janet Yellen and Fed Predecessors Find Common Ground Onstage
New York Times 04/07/16
MIT Forged Activist Views of Central Bank Role and Cinched Central Bankers' Ties
Wall Street Journal 12/12/12
Japan Airlines (JAL) performance
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
JAL May Need $1.1 Billion More in Aid
Wall Street Journal 06/21/10
Wall Street Journal 08/31/10
Japan Airlines Plans to Spend $6 Billion on New Aircraft
Wall Street Journal 02/16/12
JAL, a Bailout Beneficiary, Heads for a Public Offering
New York Times 07/02/12
Tokyo Exchange Approves JAL Listing
Wall Street Journal 08/03/12
JAL Plans an IPO to Raise $8.5 Billion
New York Times 08/02/12
UK failed bank Northern Rock
01/28/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/17/13
Wall Street Journal 11/18/11
British Commission Says Bank Reforms Don't Go Far Enough
New York Times 12/21/12
Britannia Not Cool, But Not Undone
Wall Street Journal 01/22/09
Bank of England Chief Changes Tack in Crisis
Wall Street Journal 01/28/08
U.S. Probes 14 Companies In Subprime Investigation
Wall Street Journal 01/29/08
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