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Putin and Russia's shift in Ukraine policy with the impact of capital flight, western sanctions and a sharp slowdown in the economy by July 2014
07/11/2014
Polls show 66% of the Russian public opposes Russian forces going into Ukrainian territory. The rhetoric on Russian television has been toned down and Russian analysts say intervention in Ukraine would have dangerous consequences for Russia, that Russia needs to maintain its relations with the West. At the same time Putin will attend a summit of BRIC's leaders in Fortaleza, Brazil, with plans to set up a development bank, as the focus shifts back to the economy. Russia is expected to feel the impact of $75 billion in capital flight in the first half of 2014.
Grouped Articles
Seeing Cost of Saber Rattling in Ukraine, Putin Alters Course
New York Times 07/11/2014
U.S. Escalates Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine Crisis
Wall Street Journal 07/17/2014
Raising Stakes on Russia, U.S. Adds Sanctions
New York Times 07/16/2014
Putinism Thrives on Dirty Money
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2014
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2014
Coordinated Sanctions Aim at Russia’s Ability to Tap Its Oil Reserves
New York Times 07/29/2014
Politics and government in Ireland in 2010-2011
11/22/2010
Grouped Articles
Irish Say No to No Senate in Blow to Prime Minister
New York Times 10/05/2013
Irish Leader, Cowen, to Dissolve Government Amid Bailout
New York Times 11/22/2010
Domestic Politics May Test European Resolve In 2011
Wall Street Journal 01/25/2011
Irish Vote Sets Stage for Showdown With EU
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2011
New York Times 03/01/2011
Kenny to Lead Ireland in 'Darkest Hour'
Wall Street Journal 03/09/2011
Historian David Kennedy and other experts on the political processes underway in America in 2010.
11/06/2010
Grouped Articles
Throwing the Bums Out for 140 Years
New York Times 11/06/2010
An Election that United by Dividing
New York Times 11/06/2010
Dissecting the 2010 Midterm Election Exit Polls
New York Times 11/06/2010
New York Times 11/06/2010
The influence of outside groups in elections as the ad and other spending exceeds $2 billion for the 2010 midterm elections.
10/26/2010
As candidates raise increasing amounts of money their positions on legislation is increasingly influenced by outside groups. Large amounts of television ad spending also tends to distort the public's perception of important issues by offering simplistic or distorted view of the facts or resorting to labeling of opponents regardless of the facts. In some situations right policy choices may be affected.
Grouped Articles
House and Senate shatter fundraising records for midterm election and may exceed $2 billion
Washington Post 10/26/2010
How the Rout Was Won: Careful Plans, Timely Wave
Wall Street Journal 11/03/2010
Unaligned Voters Tilt Rightward En Masse
Wall Street Journal 11/03/2010
With Democrats Ascendant, California Votes Contrarian
Wall Street Journal 11/03/2010
Dissecting the 2010 Midterm Election Exit Polls
New York Times 11/06/2010
Tom Donohue: Obama's Tormentor
BusinessWeek 11/03/2010
California- regional politics 2010-2014
10/23/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2010
Repairing California: The tide begins to turn
Economist 12/04/2010
Jerry Brown's Last Stand in California
New York Times 05/04/2011
Lessons from California: The perils of extreme democracy
Economist 04/23/2011
The risks of the Federal Reserve's reinflation policy in 2010-2014
10/11/2010
A rise in commodities prices is one serious risk, leaving consumers drowning in the reinflation.
Grouped Articles
Inflation Below Fed Target for 22nd Month in a Row
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2014
Risk of Deflation Feeds Global Fears
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2014
Fed Must Consider the World and All U.S. Employment
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Fed's Reflation Bet Could Hit Consumers Before It Helps
Wall Street Journal 10/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2010
Low interest rates and Fed policy in 2010-2012
10/02/2010
Grouped Articles
New York Times 10/16/2014
Enough With the Low Interest Rates!
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2010
Opinions Are Split on Fed Policy Move
Wall Street Journal 11/01/2010
Ben S. Bernanke - What the Fed did and why: supporting the recovery and sustaining price stability
Washington Post 11/04/2010
China-Japan Economic and Political Relations
09/02/2010
Increasing strains in the econmic and political relations in 2010.
Grouped Articles
Territorial Dispute Continues to Affect Japanese Car Sales in China
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
China Raises Stakes in Air Standoff
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
Tensions With China Shoring Up Japanese Prime Minister's Push to Build Up Military Capability
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
Japan, U.S. at Odds Over China's Air Zone
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Interview With Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada
Wall Street Journal 09/02/2010
Firms Face 'Unthinkable' in China, Tokyo Official Says
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2010
Afghanistan's national army and police force
08/21/2010
Conditions do not offer much hope of fixing the problems.
Grouped Articles
Taliban Making Military Gains in Afghanistan
New York Times 07/26/2014
With Taliban’s Revival, Dread Returns to Swat Valley
New York Times 07/26/2014
Afghanistan's troubled national army: Fixing the unfixable
Economist 08/21/2010
Kabul's Police Tab Fails a U.S. Audit
Wall Street Journal 04/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 06/17/2011
Report Sees Danger in Local Allies
Wall Street Journal 06/17/2011
U.S. politics and Toyota
02/19/2010
Efforts in Congress and in the government that favor domestic makers at a time of Toyota recalls.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 02/19/2010
Toyota Gets on Trump’s Good Side With $1.6 Billion U.S. Factory
WSJ 08/04/2017
David Stockman, Reagan's Budget Director prodigy, on bank behaviour and solutions to the banking and economic crisis.
01/20/2010
Stockman takes on the banks as instruments of the impoverishment of the U.S. economy and of the American middle class. He derides the loose monetary policy of the Fed, that has encouraged insane and socially unproductive behaviours of the American banks.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2013
New York Times 07/21/2011
Taxing Wall Street Down to Size
New York Times 01/20/2010
Four Deformations of the Apocalypse
New York Times 07/31/2010
Tom Keene Talks with David Stockman
BusinessWeek 08/12/2010
Opinions Are Split on Fed Policy Move
Wall Street Journal 11/01/2010
The national mood in America- political processes and society.
09/29/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/29/2009
New York Times 11/17/2009
New York Times 12/18/2009
Politics in the Age of Distrust
New York Times 01/22/2010
U.S.-China relations 2010-2013
01/13/2009
U.S.-China relations. Policy differences and trade relations are expected to exacerbate in 2010. The role of the U.S. as a supplicant to China in 2009 may lead to frustration and stepping back. US-China relations are tense because of continuing trade pressures and large trade deficits as China continues with its export model. Currency issues also an irritant.
Grouped Articles
US-China trade relations: Speak less softly, carry a stick
Economist 09/25/2010
China Pumps Up the Volume Against Japan
Wall Street Journal 02/08/2014
U.S. and China Mark 30 Years of Diplomatic Ties
New York Times 01/13/2009
U.S.-China relations to face strains, experts say - washingtonpost.com
Washington Post 01/03/2010
U.S., China locked in trade disputes
Washington Post 01/04/2010
China denounces U.S. trade ruling on steel pipes
Washington Post 01/01/2010
The polarization of politics in America in 2010-2011
11/22/2010
Grouped Articles
New York Times 11/22/10
Political Times - After the Tucson Shooting, Is the Anger Gone?
New York Times 01/15/11
New York Times 06/21/11
Is North Carolina the Future of American Politics?
The New York Times 06/20/17
Difficult policy choices for China in 2011-2015
11/12/2010
Grouped Articles
Beijing Signals a Shift on Economic Policy
New York Times 05/24/13
Wall Street Journal 11/12/10
Beijing’s migrant workers: School’s out
Economist 09/03/11
China's Lessons From Mexico and Japan
Wall Street Journal 09/13/11
Still Reserved on China's Policy Shift
Wall Street Journal 12/01/11
China Speeds Economic 'Transformation'
Wall Street Journal 03/06/12
Republican party policies in the US after the 2010 midterms.
11/05/2010
Grouped Articles
GOP Vows to Keep Pressure On Obama
Wall Street Journal 11/05/10
A Short History of Midterm Elections
Wall Street Journal 11/06/10
The GOP takeover in the states
Washington Post 11/13/10
CPAC Conference Shows Tea Partyâs Power
New York Times 02/10/11
In Wisconsin and Washington, budget battles reshape political landscape
Washington Post 02/19/11
Wall Street Journal 04/16/11
Dysfunctional politics in America in 2010-2011.
10/24/2010
Grouped Articles
Robert J. Samuelson - The dysfunction of American politics
Washington Post 10/25/10
Companies that received bailout money giving generously to candidates
Washington Post 10/24/10
The third-party stump speech we need - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/11
Washington Post 11/13/11
Turning the Dialogue From Wealth to Values
New York Times 11/12/11
New York Times 11/12/11
The city of Shenzen and efforts to establish a modified economic-political model for China.
10/18/2010
Compelling needs in China for getting the involvement and voices of Chinese society, even as the Chinese Communist party controls freedom of expression. This would help control corruption which is a threat to the party's influence and leadership. Efforts to setup democratic processes at an early stage.
Grouped Articles
China Tests New Political Model in Shenzhen
Wall Street Journal 10/18/10
In China, Even the Premier Is Censored
Wall Street Journal 10/18/10
New York Times 10/22/10
David Ignatius - Will China keep rising or succumb to its paranoia?
Washington Post 10/25/10
China's muffled media: Gagging to be free
Economist 10/23/10
Peopleâs Daily Article Appears to Rebuke Wen Jiabao
New York Times 10/27/10
Vietnam foreign policy.
10/10/2010
Grouped Articles
In Vietnam, Gates Faces Balancing Act With Assertive China
New York Times 10/10/10
Changes in the Republican party in 2010-2013
09/03/2010
Cantor, Ryan and others try to recast the party in a different light, by rejecting the old Republican politics and leaders from an earlier era.
Grouped Articles
Congress Passes Debt, Budget Deal
Wall Street Journal 10/17/13
Eric Cantor Defeated by David Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in Primary Upset
New York Times 06/10/14
The Two Parties Aren’t Crazy, Just Changed
Wall Street Journal 10/13/15
Washington Post 02/25/16
GOP 'Young Guns' attack Obama and former party leaders in new book
Washington Post 09/03/10
New York Times 10/21/10
U.S. Federal Reserve's policy and actions in 2010-2013
08/27/2010
Grouped Articles
Fed Officials Try to Set the Market at Ease
Wall Street Journal 06/24/13
Bernanke Plays Down Link Between Jobless Rate, Fed Moves
Wall Street Journal 07/18/13
In Surprise, Fed Decides to Maintain Pace of Stimulus
New York Times 09/18/13
Economists See Nominee as Slightly More Dovish Bernanke
Wall Street Journal 10/10/13
Yellenâs Path From Liberal Theorist to Fed Voice for Jobs
New York Times 10/09/13
The Yellen Fed? Precise and Predictable
New York Times 10/09/13
China's policy shift to a less export dependent economy.
05/29/2010
Grouped Articles
How China Lost Its Mojo: One Town's Story
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
Yuan's Rise Hurts China's Exporters
Wall Street Journal 01/20/14
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
New York Times 05/29/10
U.S. Apparel Retailers Turn Their Gaze Beyond China
Wall Street Journal 06/15/10
Gadget Giant's Evolution: Make, Then Sell
Wall Street Journal 08/21/10
Yuan Revaluation for China's Own Sake
Wall Street Journal 10/02/10
A new Industrial Policy for the U.S. after 2010 and the Economic Crisis.
02/08/2010
Hofmeister and others call for a new Industrial Policy for the USA.
Grouped Articles
How to Fix the Economy: An Expert Panel
BusinessWeek 09/16/10
The U.S. Needs an Industrial Policy
Wall Street Journal 02/08/10
New York Times 10/10/10
The U.S. Economy: Stuck in Neutral
BusinessWeek 10/14/10
Washington Post 09/06/11
Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story
Wall Street Journal 09/26/11
The national mood in Britain- political processes and society.
10/16/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 10/16/09
New York Times 12/07/11
Conservatives Fare Poorly in British Races, London's Mayor Aside
New York Times 05/04/12
Why high unemployment in the U.S. is expected for 2010-2014
06/06/2009
Structural problems like a mismatch of skills between maufacturing and construction sectors worst hit since 2008 and growing sectors like healthcare is one problem. Geographic factors and difficulty selling homes in states like Michigan is another. The tighter credit from a return of banking sector losses from bad home equity loans that is expected in late 2010 will keep the recovery from taking hold keeping unemployment high. The economic uncertainty following repeated budget battles between political parties also affects business investment.
Grouped Articles
90 Million Americans Not Working
Wall Street Journal 10/23/13
Hiring Slowdown Blurs Growth View
Wall Street Journal 01/20/14
Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
New York Times 01/28/14
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/14
New York Times 04/05/12
Hiring Is Strong and Jobless Rate Declines to 6.1%
New York Times 07/03/14
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