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Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025
11/27/2024
Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.
Grouped Articles
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/2024
Washington Post 06/10/2024
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/2020
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/2018
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/2020
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/2021
U.S. relations with North Korea
11/22/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2013
As marathon talks continue, Koreas ready their militaries for conflict - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/24/2015
North Korea Says It Successfully Conducted Hydrogen-Bomb Test
Wall Street Journal 01/06/2016
The U.S. diplomatic corps loses a legend just when it needs him the most - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/07/2016
North Korea Bomb Test Challenges U.S. Policy in Asia
Wall Street Journal 01/07/2016
Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis - Review U.S. policy toward North Korea
Washington Post 11/22/2010
Analysis of the 2010 US midterm election
11/21/2010
The divide between those without a college degree and the highly educated, between the densely populated areas and the less densely populated areas, the two coasts and the midwest.
Grouped Articles
Political divide between coasts and Midwest deepening, midterm election analysis shows
Washington Post 11/21/2010
A Part-Time, Low-Wage Epidemic
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2012
Japan's auto parts industry and the planned transformation to electric car parts
11/02/2010
Area such as Hamamatsu where the auto parts manufacturing industry accounts for a large part of the local economy, and a planned transformation to electric car parts.
Grouped Articles
Electric Cars Make Japan's Gas Engine Industry Anxious
New York Times 11/02/2010
U.S. Manufacturing Decline Raises Concern About Innovation
New York Times 02/12/2011
After Disaster Hit Japan, Electric Cars Stepped Up
New York Times 05/06/2011
Ford CEO: Battery Is Third of Electric Car Cost
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2012
Japan Probe Pops Car-Part Keiretsu
Wall Street Journal 02/16/2013
The Oct. 2010 G-20 meeting in S. Korea and the trade and currency compromise.
10/22/2010
Grouped Articles
Fixing a Perception Gap for the Underappreciated G-20
Wall Street Journal 08/27/2013
G-20 Tentatively Agrees to Curb Trade Imbalances
New York Times 10/22/2010
Dollar Weakens After G-20 Talks
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2010
Taking Harder Stance Toward China, Obama Lines Up Allies
New York Times 10/25/2010
A Four-Point Plan for the G-20
Wall Street Journal 11/11/2010
Steven Pearlstein - After years of imbalances, a painful reckoning
Washington Post 11/11/2010
S. Korea.
06/25/2010
Grouped Articles
U.S. Vows New Push in Korean Trade Pact
Wall Street Journal 06/25/2010
Reliance ADA.
06/01/2010
Anil Ambani's reliance ADA is one of India's largest companies with interests in telecom, entertainment and other areas.
Grouped Articles
With Reliance Tie-Up, CBS Seeks A Passage to India's TV Market
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2010
India’s Pent-Up Demand for Telecom Mergers
Wall Street Journal 06/07/2010
One More Rings Reliance's Bell
Wall Street Journal 06/07/2010
The Risk of Reliance on Indian Surge
Wall Street Journal 06/08/2010
Reliance Industries to Buy Indian Broadband Company
New York Times 06/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 06/12/2010
The performance of socially conscious economies of Europe and the U.S. economy compared.
01/11/2010
Why Europe compares favorably with the US economy in areas like unemployment when looking at the 24-54 working age group, technology adoption, economic growth when you factor out population growth in the USA, and with higher taxes offset by social benefits for large segments of society.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/13/2013
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
Growth isn’t enough to help the middle class - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/14/2013
New York Times 01/11/2010
New York Times 02/09/2010
Comparative Advantage and American Jobs
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2011
Tesco South Korea.
06/06/2006
Grouped Articles
MBK Partners Clinches Deal for Tesco’s Korean Operations
Wall Street Journal 09/08/2015
Tesco Sells South Korean Business Homeplus for Over $6 Billion
New York Times 09/07/2015
No. 1 Retailer in Britain Uses 'Clubcard' to Thwart Wal-Mart
Wall Street Journal 06/06/2006
Tesco's CEO-to-Be Unfolds Map for Global Expansion
Wall Street Journal 06/09/2010
Tesco's New CEO Clarke Is Company Veteran
Wall Street Journal 06/09/2010
South Korea's E-Mart Is No Wal-Mart, Which Is Precisely Why Locals Love It
Wall Street Journal 08/10/2006
The Food Shortages in North Korea
11/24/2010
The food shortages in North Korea have influenced the actions of the Kim regime.
Grouped Articles
U.S. and Allies to Tie North Korea’s Rights Record to Nuclear Talks
New York Times 05/27/15
New Focus on North Koreaâs Food Shortage
New York Times 11/24/10
Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
Washington Post 02/22/11
Wall Street Journal 03/26/11
North Korean Food Crisis to Be Eased by Europe Aid
New York Times 07/03/11
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il Is Dead
Wall Street Journal 12/19/11
North Korea and the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation
11/22/2010
The view that is emerging that the US has to find some positive ways to engage with North Korea. China's support of North Korea makes it less likely that the regime will simply collapse as the US would hope. All this is happening in the context of North Korea's continued development of nuclear weapons capabilities in 2010.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/12/13
Nuclear weapons: The new nuclear age
Economist 04/05/15
Wall Street Journal 04/23/15
Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis - Review U.S. policy toward North Korea
Washington Post 11/22/10
North Korea Nuclear Find Raises Fear on Tehran
Wall Street Journal 11/22/10
Jimmy Carter - North Korea's consistent message to the U.S.
Washington Post 11/24/10
U.S.-South Korea trade agreement
11/13/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 11/13/10
U.S.-Korea Pact Hinges on Autos
Wall Street Journal 12/03/10
U.S., Korea Agree on Free-Trade Pact
Wall Street Journal 12/03/10
U.S. Sets Sweeping New Deal on Trade
Wall Street Journal 12/03/10
White House to Revive Latin America Deals
Wall Street Journal 02/09/11
Trade Deals, Job Help Linked in Congress
Wall Street Journal 02/14/11
Microsavings services in rural parts of the developing world.
10/28/2010
The importance of savings services for small $1 type deposits. Efforts by organizations like Catholic Relief Services to offer and help organize this service in rural areas.
Grouped Articles
India's Major Crisis in Microlending
Wall Street Journal 10/28/10
Henninger: Romney's Secret Voting Bloc
Wall Street Journal 10/31/12
U.S. public sentiment towards outsourcing manufacturing and trade issues.
10/02/2010
Big changes in public opinion as the U.S. economy struggles in 2010 to create enough jobs. Compared to ten years ago in 1999, highly educated Americans now have unfavorable opinions on how free trade is impacting the U.S. in the jobs area.
Grouped Articles
China's Export Pain May Be Mexico's Gain
Wall Street Journal 02/06/12
Why Manufacturing Still Counts in the U.S. Economy
Wall Street Journal 01/14/15
Trans-Pacific Partnership Puts Harvard Law School Rivals on Opposite Sides, Again
New York Times 04/27/15
Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.
New York Times 06/03/15
After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade
New York Times 03/09/16
Free Trade Loses Political Favor
Wall Street Journal 03/10/16
Reliance Industries Ltd
06/07/2010
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limted is India's leading conglomerate with interests in oil refining, retail, telecom and other areas.
Grouped Articles
Indian energy: A price worth paying
Economist 07/08/13
Asian Refiners Get Squeezed by U.S. Energy Boom
Wall Street Journal 01/02/14
Conflict in Oil Industry, Awash in Crude
New York Times 02/12/14
One More Rings Reliance's Bell
Wall Street Journal 06/07/10
The Risk of Reliance on Indian Surge
Wall Street Journal 06/08/10
Wall Street Journal 06/12/10
Lowenstein and other experts on the areas that need fixing in financial reforms.
03/11/2010
The Squam Lake Group, Lowenstein and others. Te efforts of the Squam lake Group of 15 economists to build a consensus and model for reforms worldwide.
Grouped Articles
Commentary: First, Slap Limits on Bank Leverage
BusinessWeek 03/11/10
New York Times 04/20/10
A Dubious Way to Prevent Fiscal Crisis
New York Times 06/04/10
Financial Bill Would Create World Model, Volcker Says
New York Times 06/09/10
15 Economists Issue Crisis-Prevention Manual
New York Times 06/15/10
To Help Prevent Crises, Delay Some Executive Pay
New York Times 06/18/10
Nuclear Energy-South Korea.
12/28/2009
Grouped Articles
Korean Team to Build U.A.E. Nuclear Plants
Wall Street Journal 12/28/09
U.A.E. Move Splits the Atom Club
Wall Street Journal 12/29/09
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