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China- Communist party leadership in 2010-2012
01/06/2008
The transition in 2012 to the new leadership of Xi Jinping Li Keqiang.
Grouped Articles
China Previews Rising Leadership
Wall Street Journal 08/22/2011
Xi Comes Out on Top After Bo Verdict
Wall Street Journal 09/22/2013
China's next leader: Xi who must be obeyed
Economist 10/23/2010
The Wonk With the Ear of Chinese President Xi Jinping
Wall Street Journal 06/04/2013
New York Times 04/09/2014
China Promotes a Top Party Official
New York Times 10/18/2010
China wage increases and government policy to promote domestic consumption.
01/05/2008
Wage increases of 20% at Hon Hai and upto 100% at Honda factories in China from wages that were kept low for the export market, are now the trend in China. The government policy is shifting to encourage such wage increases to promote domestic consumption and reduce an overreliance on export markets for growth. This is happening just as trade tensions are increasing with the USA.
Grouped Articles
Beijing Signals a Shift on Economic Policy
New York Times 05/24/2013
Honda's Long-Haul Dilemma in China
Wall Street Journal 06/24/2010
Interview With Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada
Wall Street Journal 09/02/2010
Yuan's Rise Hurts China's Exporters
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2014
China Will Keep Growing. Just Ask the Soviets.
New York Times 10/24/2014
Adidos and Hotwind? In China, Brands Evoke Foreign Names, Even if They’re Gibberish
New York Times 12/26/2014
The growing low wage sector as downside of Germany's improving unemployment rate in 2009-2013
01/04/2008
The unemployment rate dropped to 7.6% in Germany in 2009 an 6.9% by 2013. Experts says this is a result of the rapid growth in the sector paying low wages.
Grouped Articles
'Minijobs' Lift Employment But Mask German Weakness
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2013
German elections pit Merkel, challenger over poverty problems - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/17/2013
Europe's Easy-Money Policy Snubs German Savers
Wall Street Journal 11/25/2013
Americanized Labor Policy Is Spreading in Europe
New York Times 12/03/2013
German Recovery Spurs Push for Higher Pay
Wall Street Journal 09/09/2010
Europe Moving Toward Small Steps to Promote Growth
New York Times 05/10/2012
Martin Feldstein on the risks for the American Economy after failures in the Obama Economic plan.
09/12/2007
Failures to address problems on the housing front, especialy the problems for 15 million homeowners under water- see the links to opeds by Feldstein suggesting focus on these issues throughout 2008-2009. And the focus on health care which diverted attention from this problem and the problem facing bad loans in commercial real estate. Other problems are failure to get bank lending up for businesses. And the failure of Obama health care plans to control the increase in the nation's surging health care spending, instead increasing the deficit to unsustainable levels. Public sentiment as shown in WSJ/NBC polls confirm Feldstein's sense of the situation.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/08/2013
From President Obama, Economic Clarity but Little Courage
Washington Post 04/15/2009
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2007
How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2008
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2008
Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2008
IKB Deutsche Industrie Bank and Sachsen LB
08/20/2007
German state-owned banks that engaged in reckless risktaking and had to be supported by the German central bank to prevent complete collapse.
Grouped Articles
Debt Puts German Banks in a Bind
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2007
Europeâs Mightiest Banks Still Grapple With Crisis
New York Times 06/27/2012
Chrysler's new Jeep Cherokee under Fiat management- 2010-2013
11/10/2006
With little to show that is new in its product lineup, Chrysler has a lot resting on its redesigned 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Grouped Articles
Chrysler's Jeep Faces Uphill Climb in China
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Last Car Plant Brings Detroit Hope and Cash
New York Times 07/15/2013
Fiat, in Deal With Union, Will Buy Rest of Chrysler
New York Times 01/01/2014
Chrysler Weighs Jeep Expansion
Wall Street Journal 01/14/2014
Chrysler Puts Laser Focus on Defects
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2012
Many Hopes Ride on Makeover of the Grand Cherokee
New York Times 05/20/2010
Germany's Kurzarbeit plan and other methods of softening the impact of a recession on jobs and wages.
10/28/2006
About 1.5 million employees used the Kurzarbeit short work week schedules according to the German labor agency. In the latest month March 2010, 693,000 workers were on the Kurzarbeit short week schedule.
Grouped Articles
The Price of Saving Jobs in Germany
BusinessWeek 07/29/2010
Germany's economy: Angela in Wunderland
Economist 02/05/2011
Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World
BusinessWeek 06/08/2011
Wall Street Journal 11/21/2011
The Age of the Superfluous Worker
New York Times 11/24/2011
Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects
Wall Street Journal 02/07/2012
Questions about China's one-child policy.
06/30/2006
The fertility rate is estimated by one the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to be at most 1.6, having dropped from close to 3 when the policy was introduced in 1980. Does this policy make sense as the population ages ask critics in the Chinese media? The impact of demographics on China's future.
Grouped Articles
The Slowing of Two Economic Giants
New York Times 07/14/2013
Washington Post 11/16/2013
China to Ease Longtime Policy of 1-Child Limit
New York Times 11/15/2013
Wall Street Journal 11/16/2013
Calculating Shift to What May Really Be 1.5-Child Policy
Wall Street Journal 11/16/2013
Nicholas Eberstadt: China's Coming One-Child Crisis
Wall Street Journal 11/27/2013
Glenn Hubbard's view on the action needed to address America's economic future.
06/05/2006
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/05/2006
First, Let's Stabilize Home Prices
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2008
Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer
Wall Street Journal 12/17/2008
From Awful to Merely Bad: Reviewing the Bank Rescue Options
Wall Street Journal 02/07/2009
Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2009
The Fed Can Lead on Financial Supervision
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2009
China and pollution of air and water.
05/10/2006
Use of coal-fired plants and more automobiles on Chinese streets and highways are worsening air quality in Chinese cities. Industrialization is taking its toll on air and water quality. 25% of lakes, rivers and streams have water too contaminated to be used for drinking water, according to areport by the China Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Grouped Articles
Pollution Is Radically Changing Childhood in Chinaâs Cities
New York Times 04/22/2013
China Seeks to Calm Anxiety Over Rice
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
Cadmium-Tainted Rice Discovered in Southern China
New York Times 05/21/2013
Wall Street Journal 06/06/2013
Air Pollution From Coal Use Cuts Lifespans in China, Study Shows
Wall Street Journal 07/09/2013
Paying Auditors for Honest Appraisals
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2013
The Buick models in 2010 with the new GM.
04/23/2006
Efforts to go after younger buyer and Gen Y with the new Buick Regal and other models.
Grouped Articles
Detroit Vehicles Outperform Imports in Quality Study
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2013
BusinessWeek 09/30/2010
Buick Sheds Its Old Fogy Image and Lifts G.M.
New York Times 07/11/2014
Confession: The Regal's a Pretty Great Car
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2010
2006 Buick Lucerne: So Shipshape the Portholes Seem to Fit
New York Times 04/23/2006
G.M. Looks to Luxury Cars for Higher Profit
New York Times 01/10/2012
France's nuclear energy industry.
03/28/2006
The French governmet is working to setup a partnership between Areva and EDF.
Grouped Articles
Areva's High-End Bet on Nuclear Power
BusinessWeek 03/04/2010
EDF to Build New Nuclear Power Plant in U.K.
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2013
EDF to Build New Nuclear Power Plant in U.K.
Wall Street Journal 10/22/2013
Wall Street Journal 10/22/2013
Deal to Build a British Nuclear Plant Assumes a Role for Government
New York Times 10/21/2013
French Nuclear Giant Areva Says Future Is Uncertain, Prompting a Sell-Off
New York Times 11/19/2014
China's difficult political-economic choices in the post 2010 period.
01/06/2008
The difficult choices in the new environment- transition to a new leadership, how to change the export model without serious disruptions, how to deal with western demands for balanced global growth, dealing with the inequality and corruption generated in the kind of growth China experienced (by the fiat of the State), opening up freedom of expression to curb corruption and to provide representation for hitherto blocked out voices, transition to freedom of expression and democratic processes without serious disruption to thegrowth needed for employment and improvements in the standard of living across all parts of society and regions, reducing or channelling to constructive ends prevailing nationalistic, anti-western or anti-Japanese sentiment. The new leadership of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang is expected to be more outward looking than than of Hu Jintao and Wen Biao and comes at atime when China needs to make some difficult choices about future direction.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/01/13
The Slowing of Two Economic Giants
New York Times 07/14/13
Wall Street Journal 07/15/13
How China Lost Its Mojo: One Town's Story
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
Chinaâs Economy, Back on Track
New York Times 10/04/13
Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See
Wall Street Journal 10/26/13
Changes in China's factories in 2010-2013. Changing manufacturing.
01/05/2008
Conditions at Hon Hai and a strike at Honda are part of a changing picture of worker dissatisfaction with wages and discipline at Chinese factories. The period of low prices and worker discipline of the kind that prevailed for several decades of industrialization appears to be closing. The Chinese government is also having second thoughts as America and Europe are no longer the growing markets they used to be, and as it weighs a policy shift to domestic consumption.
Grouped Articles
China: A Billion Strong but Short on Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/02/13
China Manufacturers Survive by Moving to Asian Neighbors
Wall Street Journal 05/02/13
China Factories Try Karaoke, Speed Dating to Keep Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/03/13
Strains Show in China's Job Market
Wall Street Journal 06/11/13
Wall Street Journal 12/21/11
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
New York Times 05/29/10
RBS and Lloyd's Banking Group and reckless management.
09/17/2007
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyd's banking Group were part of the U.K. bank bailout. This was a case of poor decisions, reckless management and excessive risk taking without attention to possible consequences. Cameron and Osborne of the Conservatives and Mervyn King of the Bank of England voiced criticism of these behaviours that has cost the British taxpayer.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/13/13
New York Times 06/12/13
The future of Lloyds: Stuff happened
Economist 09/25/10
Past Sins Haunting Royal Bank of Scotland
New York Times 01/27/14
Legal Costs Set to Put RBS in the Red
Wall Street Journal 01/28/14
Wall Street Journal 01/28/14
Martin Feldstein and the mortgage crisis 2009-2010.
09/12/2007
See the solutions suggested by Feldstein to the crisis in a series of articles.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/12/07
How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03/07/08
Wall Street Journal 02/20/08
Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
Wall Street Journal 04/15/08
The Problem Is Still Falling House Prices
Wall Street Journal 10/04/08
Martin Feldstein - The Stimulus Plan We Need Now
Washington Post 10/30/08
Target stores.
05/07/2007
Retailing giant Target and changes in its strategy to adjust to the frugal American consumer. The new retailing environment in America.
Grouped Articles
Target Earnings Rise 14% on Pickup In Credit Cards, Cost-Cutting Efforts
Wall Street Journal 08/19/10
Target Tests Small Store for Urban Shoppers as Young People Pick Cities Over Suburbs
New York Times 01/16/14
Target's Data Breach Adds to CEO's Sack of Woe
Wall Street Journal 01/26/14
Target Earnings Slide 46% After Data Breach
Wall Street Journal 02/27/14
Wall Street Journal 05/07/07
Pharmacies Fight Tough Battle on Generic Prices
Wall Street Journal 12/22/08
Chrysler's new image under Fiat.
11/10/2006
Efforts to take Chrysler's image in anew direction that promotes greener cars and different demographics.
Grouped Articles
Chrysler's Hemi Engine Loses Favor
Wall Street Journal 07/07/10
Chrysler reveals upgraded 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan
Detroit News 10/28/10
Chrysler Rides Higher at Detroit Show
Wall Street Journal 01/11/11
Chrysler Says Its Brand Is Here to Stay
New York Times 01/10/11
Boss Sweats Details of Chrysler Revival
Wall Street Journal 01/31/11
Fiat Will Hike Stake in Chrysler
Detroit News 04/21/11
Pharmaceutical companies fighting generics.
10/22/2006
Pharmaceutical compaies are trying to make it harder for pharmacists to substitute generics.
Grouped Articles
Generic-Drug Firms Go Beyond Knockoffs
Wall Street Journal 06/15/13
Industry Fights Switch To Generics for Epilepsy
Wall Street Journal 07/13/07
Wall Street Journal 02/06/08
TriCor Case May Illuminate Patent Limits
Wall Street Journal 06/02/08
How a Drug Maker Tries to Outwit Generics
Wall Street Journal 11/17/08
Ending the Silence of Generic Drugmakers
BusinessWeek 06/24/10
Shanghai's return to prominence as business location.
06/13/2006
Grouped Articles
Expo Offers Shanghai a Turn in the Spotlight
New York Times 04/29/10
Expo Renews Focus on Shanghai's Foreign Side
Wall Street Journal 05/01/10
Washington Post 12/14/10
As China's Auto Market Booms, Leaders Clash Over Heavy Toll
Wall Street Journal 06/13/06
Shanghai's Pudong, Once Soulless, Rises Up
Wall Street Journal 12/21/11
Wall Street Journal 01/31/12
Russia's future in technology.
05/13/2006
Efforts to close a growing gap in science and technology with western European countries and the USA. Moves to give more state funds to innovative Russian companies in procurement practices. Dependence on oil and minerals for 80% of Russia's export revenues distorts the situation for technology development.
Grouped Articles
Medvedev Makes a Slight Break With Putin
Wall Street Journal 05/19/11
Russia Decides It's Time to Try Modern Oil Drilling
New York Times 05/13/06
Itâs the P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as the I.Q.
New York Times 01/29/13
Russia's WTO Membership Faces Rocky Road
Wall Street Journal 02/22/11
Fuel Efficiency Technology development
05/03/2006
The search for gains in fuel efficiency by looking beyond engine components to other parts of a vehicle.
Grouped Articles
Auto Engineers Look Beyond Engines
Wall Street Journal 11/16/10
Wall Street Journal 04/22/11
Obama administration set to raise fuel efficiency standards, but by how much? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/13/11
Lawmakers Weigh Tightening Fuel-Economy Rules
Wall Street Journal 05/03/06
New Mileage Rules Debated by Carmakers and White House
New York Times 07/03/11
White House Offers Auto Makers Concession to Win Mileage Support
Wall Street Journal 07/15/11
Shift to fuel efficient engines will reduce oil demand in China.
04/12/2006
The gradual phasing out of polluting and inefficient one cylinder engines called "inkfish" used by poorer people. About 36 million of these types of low tech engines are currently sold.
Grouped Articles
China Has Big Eyes, Little Stomach for Oil
Wall Street Journal 08/27/15
China's Thirst for Oil Could Come Up Short
Wall Street Journal 06/01/10
Wall Street Journal 07/18/10
Obama administration set to raise fuel efficiency standards, but by how much? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/13/11
As the Price of Gasoline Takes Off, Oil and Auto Firms Trade Barbs
Wall Street Journal 04/12/06
New Mileage Rules Debated by Carmakers and White House
New York Times 07/03/11
Fuel efficiency of the U.S. vehicle fleet
02/28/2006
Fuel efficiency at 22.4 miles per gallon in 2009 for the entire fleet of vehicles in the US, according to the EPA. A shift to cars from pickups and to smaller cars.
Grouped Articles
Car Fuel Economy Improved in 2009, E.P.A. Says
New York Times 11/17/10
Carol Browner, Director of Policy on Climate Will Leave White House
New York Times 01/24/11
Wall Street Journal 04/22/11
Obama administration set to raise fuel efficiency standards, but by how much? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/13/11
Americans Are Cautiously Open to Gas Tax Rise, Poll Shows
New York Times 02/28/06
As the Price of Gasoline Takes Off, Oil and Auto Firms Trade Barbs
Wall Street Journal 04/12/06
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