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Emerging Markets 2014 financial crisis (1) - Argentina, Turkey and Thailand, shown to have failed to learn the lessons of the 1997 financial crisis
01/30/2014
Linked Articles
Emerging-Market Slide Tests How Much Nations Learned From Past
Wall Street Journal 01/30/2014
Emerging markets: Don’t panicEconomist 02/04/2014
U.S. president Obama shifts to a limited agenda in 2014-2016 focussed on reducing disparities in income
01/28/2014
Linked Articles
In State of the Union Address, Obama Vows to Act Alone on the Economy
New York Times 01/28/2014
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income GapWall Street Journal 01/29/2014
The 150 million single children of parents, and the 61 million children of migrant workers- today's young generation in China growing up in unusual conditions
01/17/2014
The children of migrant workers were mostly brought up away from parents in rural areas by grandparents. The children born under a single child policy in urban areas had the opposite happen, with too much attention from doting parents. Both groups were raised in a manner not seen anywhere else in the world and face growing pains and lives with different burdens and needs than the rest of us. China's social and economic experiment may have come too fast, as policy planners may only now begin to realize. A lot may need to be done to address their needs and burdens, not so easily seen as the burdens of pollution and contamination whicha are easily observed.
Linked Articles
End of China’s One-Child Policy Stings Its ‘Loneliest Generation’
New York Times 11/13/2015
Left-Behind Children of China's Migrant Workers Bear Grown-Up BurdensWall Street Journal 01/17/2014
China's steadily growing automobile market in 2014-2015 (2)- the 49% increase in SUV sales in 2013 over 2012
12/16/2013
Ford Motor's early push into SUV's in China is helping it catchup with GM and Toyota.
Linked Articles
Renault to Focus on Building SUVs in China
Wall Street Journal 12/16/2013
Ford's SUVs Propel Its China GainsWall Street Journal 04/08/2014
South Africa's Mandela's willingness to challenge established bias, restraint and generosity of spirit
12/09/2013
Ross Sorkin gives the example of Mandela changing his thinking on nationalization when confronted with the facts and Friedman points out Mandela's vision in giving whites a sense of pride in the new South Africa. Friedman goes further to compare this with the effort to get just enough votes to win elections, zip code by zip code using computer generated data on demographics and other parameters, that he sees in the U.S..
Linked Articles
How Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets
New York Times 12/09/2013
Why Mandela Was UniqueNew York Times 12/10/2013
Why NASDAQ is different in 2014 from 2000- more diverse and taking out much of the speculative component
11/26/2013
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 11/28/2013
Four Reasons Why Nasdaq 4000 Differs From Tech BubbleWall Street Journal 11/26/2013
Tech firms Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu compete with state banks to offer better rates on deposits to Chinese savers in 2014-2015
11/07/2013
Linked Articles
Chinese Banks Match Tech Firms in Race for Deposits
Wall Street Journal 02/25/2014
Nonbank Upstarts Push Into Chinese BankingWall Street Journal 11/07/2013
Liu He, top economic advisor to president Jinping, and Zhou Xiaochuan, head of the People's Bank of China, push for deposit insurance and private banks in China
10/30/2013
Deposit insurance and private banks to support lending to new private enterprises moves to the top of China's agenda and priorities in 2013 for the Jinping-Keqiang administration.
Linked Articles
China's Central Banker Leads Push to Overhaul Economy
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2013
China Think Tank Offers Reform Wish ListWall Street Journal 10/30/2013
Russia and fears of stagflation (low growth and high inflation) in 2014-2015
09/19/2013
Linked Articles
Russia Looks to Borrow to Plug Funding Gap
Wall Street Journal 09/19/2013
Russia Prepared to Let Ruble SlideWall Street Journal 01/30/2014
The crucial link of good educational system and test scores with economic growth in countries
09/07/2013
Linked Articles
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
The Great Stagnation in American EducationNew York Times 09/07/2013
Poverty and hunger for the working poor in Britain's post industrial north- 2009-2014
08/20/2013
Food charities working in Africa now concentrate their efforts in Britain's post industrial northern towns.
Linked Articles
As the Working Poor Become More Common in Britain, So Does Hunger
New York Times 01/02/2014
U.K. Moves To Tackle Income SqueezeWall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Declan Walsh on why the firing of live ammunition on protesters in Cairo may end up as a watershed event for the Muslim world going forward
08/16/2013
Declan Walsh sees this in the context of the Muslim world. Janvoo sees this in the context of the world beyond, of Aisa and Latin America which have moved beyond the divisive politics of the past and away from military regimes- S. Korea, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and one party PRI Mexico. The return of Gen. Park's daughter as president of S. Korea was a different one when she apologized for the behaviour of her father, even saying she coud not spit on the image of her father. Nieto's PRI is apologetic about its past and says its different, working with the opposition PRD and PAN parties on constitutional changes for reforming the econoy. Egypt and the Arab world is no exception. The Saudis and Emirates are able to deliver in economic terms as long as oil supplies and prices are high. Egypt has to find its own path and learn from the past to build the future.
Linked Articles
Other Nations Offer a Lesson to Egyptâs Military Leaders
New York Times 08/24/2013
Democracy in Egypt Can WaitNew York Times 08/16/2013
The Washington Post under the new vision of Amazon's Jeff Bezos
08/06/2013
The man behind the Kindle e-reader takes up the job of putting the Post on tablets.
Linked Articles
Washington Post 08/06/2013
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon - The Washington PostWashington Post 08/06/2013
Pete Seeger (1920-2014)- An American Life
01/28/2014
Linked Articles
Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94 - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/28/2014
Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94New York Times 01/28/2014
Faces the U.S. Federal Reserve's Janet Yellen will have in mind as she shapes Fed policies
01/23/2014
The long term unemployed will shape Yellen's thinking on Fed policy in 2014-2015, especially men of working age.
Linked Articles
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
Don’t Expect Job Data Alone to Persuade Fed on RatesNew York Times 01/23/2014
Detroit's road to recovery- Judge Rhodes' rejection of a plan to pay off banks (2)
12/23/2013
Linked Articles
'Safe Harbor' in Bankruptcy Upended in Detroit Case
New York Times 12/23/2013
Judge Disallows Plan by Detroit to Payoff BanksNew York Times 01/16/2014
China PBOC's efforts in early 2014 to slow and slightly reverse appreciation of the yuan and have it trade in a 2% up or down trading range
12/10/2013
PBOC continues to carefully manage the currency in 2014 by slightly lowering its value, with plans to widen the trading range up or down by 2%. The yuan appreciated by 2.9% in 2013.
Linked Articles
China Intervenes to Lower Yuan
Wall Street Journal 02/27/2014
Brawny Yuan Stands Apart from the CrowdWall Street Journal 12/10/2013
A deeply divided Thailand with political divisions between the northeast around Chiang Mai and the Bangkok region
12/03/2013
Yingluck and Thaksin Shinawatra are from the northeast of Thailand and get most of their support from this region. The Bangkok region, military, courts and business remain opposed to a transfer of power to the provinces and the policies of Shinawatra. SHinawatra's policies favor the rural areas and the newly emerging middle class in the north. The struggle is as much a social phenomenon from the economic progress of the last 2 decades in Thailand as it is a struggle for a sharing of power, say experts.
Linked Articles
Economic Realignment Fuels Regional Political Divisions in Thailand
New York Times 12/03/2013
Economic Realignment Fuels Regional Political Divisions in ThailandNew York Times 12/03/2013
As Republican leaders shift strategy to allow debt limit increase in 2014- (2) voter dissatisfaction with an ideological U.S.Congress
11/12/2013
Linked Articles
GOP Backs Off Fight on Debt Limit
Wall Street Journal 02/12/2014
Radicalized Center Emerging in American PoliticsWall Street Journal 11/12/2013
Putin and the excessive cost of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia approaching $51 billion
11/05/2013
The need for infrastructure spending in other parts of Russia, for R&D development and making the transition away from dependence on oil revenues, as competing needs for capital. This also happens as currency values are declining for emerging markets and it is increasingly difficult to attract foreign investment in 2014, leading to slowing growth with high inflation.
Linked Articles
Putin's Olympian Construction Zone
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2013
Putin’s Olympic Fever DreamNew York Times 01/22/2014
The single supervisory authority for European Union banks at the European Central Bank
10/20/2013
The task ahead of the supervisory authority for EU banks at the ECB- ensuring confidence in the banking system of the EU as a first a first step towards economic recovery and growth.
Linked Articles
ECB to Start Review of Bank Balance Sheets
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2013
The Man Whoâll Do Triage on Europeâs BanksNew York Times 10/20/2013
Steadily growing automobile market in China in 2014-2015 (7)- the challenging situation for Toyota in China's market after worsening of China-Japan relations
09/11/2013
Linked Articles
Toyota Revs Up Ambitious Plans for China
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2014
Territorial Dispute Continues to Affect Japanese Car Sales in ChinaWall Street Journal 09/11/2013
Efforts to boost foreign investment in Indonesia under Widodo as growth slows and infrastructure lags behind- 2014-2016
09/04/2013
Linked Articles
Indonesian President Joko Widodo Pledges to Cut Investment Barriers
Wall Street Journal 12/08/2014
Indonesia Faces Price Rise as Currency WeakensWall Street Journal 09/04/2013
Emilio Lozoya, new CEO of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), and one of the toughest jobs in the business world
08/18/2013
The challenges facing Lozoya at Pemex and the execution following the new oil law that could promise a brighter future for Mexico.
Linked Articles
Mexico's Pemex Looks to Tap U.S. Shale
Wall Street Journal 08/18/2013
Pemex CEO: Mexican Energy Overhaul Opens OpportunityWall Street Journal 12/14/2013
The Egyptian military and Gen. Sissi's rejection of the E.U. envoy Bernardino Leon's deal for a peaceful removal of Morsi protester camps followed by talks and new elections
08/15/2013
Burns, Leon and the foreign ministers of Qatar and the UAE arranged the deal which was supported by El Baradei and then rejected by Gen. Sissi leading to the violent military crackdown and 525 dead on Aug. 14, 2013.
Linked Articles
U.S. allies were near a deal for peaceful end to Egypt crisis - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/2013
Egyptâs Blood, Americaâs ComplicityNew York Times 08/15/2013
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