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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.
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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
Wal-Mart Sam's Club.
10/31/2012
Grouped Articles
Sam's Club CEO Launches Charge on Rivals
Wall Street Journal 10/31/2012
Wal-Mart Clothing.
07/28/2010
Wal-Mart's efforts to come up with an effective strategy for clothing sales.
Grouped Articles
A Fashion Identity Crisis at Wal-Mart
Wall Street Journal 07/28/2010
Wal-Mart Executive Aims to Accelerate Growth Overseas
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2011
Wal-mart strategy 2010-2016
06/29/2010
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart Drops Ambitious Expansion Plan for India
New York Times 10/09/2013
Shoppers Can't Shake the Blues
Wall Street Journal 11/17/2013
Wal-Mart Names New Head of U.S. Operations
New York Times 06/29/2010
Wal-Mart Taps Veteran Doug McMillon as New CEO
Wall Street Journal 11/25/2013
A Fashion Identity Crisis at Wal-Mart
Wall Street Journal 07/28/2010
Wal-Mart's Big-Box Formula Comes Under Strain
Wall Street Journal 02/21/2014
Andy Grove and the scaling up at home that American companies need to do.
05/29/2010
Andy Grove brushes off talk of sending technologies and jobs much needed at home to China, with the talk he hears of "a China strategy." He doesn't see how an America with high paying jobs and mass of unemployed could work. He says American companies have failed to scale up, the way Intel did in the seventies. For every Apple employee there are 10 employees in China working on Mac's, Iphones, and Ipads. The idea of manufacturing as not important is misguided and he would like to see America rebuild its industrial base.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Apple Says App Store Sales Rose 50% in 2014
Wall Street Journal 01/09/2015
After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade
New York Times 03/09/2016
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs
BusinessWeek 07/01/2010
Yuan Revaluation for China's Own Sake
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Wal-Mart and moves into convenience retailing with small format stores
05/28/2010
In response to customer preferences and moves by Tesco, Wal-mart Asda has opened smaller stores of 8000 square feet. It also acquired Denmark's Netto chain.
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart's Big-Box Formula Comes Under Strain
Wall Street Journal 02/21/2014
Wal-Mart Looks to Grow by Embracing Smaller Stores
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
Wal-Mart Warns of Rough Patch for Sales, Profits
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2014
Wal-Mart U.K. Deal Fits Goal: Go Small
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2010
New York Times 08/21/2010
Wal-Mart Sees Small Stores in Big Cities
Wall Street Journal 10/13/2010
Experts on China and the USA in 2010 and beyond.
04/15/2010
Charlie Rose talks to the Prime minister of Singapore on China in the world in 2010 and beyond.
Grouped Articles
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: The View from Singapore
BusinessWeek 04/15/2010
Chinese Economy Treads Risky Path. (Ask Japan.)
New York Times 05/25/2010
Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2010
New York Times 09/25/2010
Fed’s $2 Trillion May Buy Little Improvement in Jobs
BusinessWeek 10/07/2010
Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong Looks Ahead
BusinessWeek 01/13/2011
Books and stories about the 2008 financial crisis, financial collapse on Wall Street, and the men who made it happen.
01/02/2009
Stories by Lowenstein, Gross and Lewis.
Grouped Articles
âAlchemistsâ Looks at Central Bankersâ Handling of Crisis
New York Times 05/04/2013
On Wall St., A Culture of Greed Won't Let Go
New York Times 07/15/2013
Commentary: First, Slap Limits on Bank Leverage
BusinessWeek 03/11/2010
BusinessWeek 04/01/2010
How the 'Wolf of Wall Street' Really Did It
Wall Street Journal 01/04/2014
Wall Street Journal 03/06/2009
View from the Top: John Malone of Liberty talks about the economic future.
07/30/2014
Malone sees the conditions in the macroeconomic picture, as critical in the future for all companies. He thinks things will be pretty tough in the next 1-2 years. It will be the bigger consumer sentiment and retail picture that will determine how his industry will do, says Malone.
Grouped Articles
For Liberty Global, the Next Step Is the Content
Wall Street Journal 07/30/14
The Obama Administration and executives on Wall Street.
08/30/2010
Grouped Articles
Why Wall St. Donors Are Deserting Obama
New York Times 08/30/10
New York Times 10/14/10
Does America need Wall Street? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/19/11
Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Wall Street
WSJ 09/16/16
Wal-Mart Management.
06/29/2010
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart Names New Head of U.S. Operations
New York Times 06/29/10
Wal-Mart Taps Veteran Doug McMillon as New CEO
Wall Street Journal 11/25/13
A Succession at Walmart Puts an Insider at the Helm
New York Times 11/25/13
Wal-Mart Taps Veteran as New CEO
Wall Street Journal 11/26/13
Walmart Names New Head of Foreign Operations
New York Times 12/10/13
Wal-Mart Splits Merchandising Jobs
Wall Street Journal 09/11/10
George Papandreou's leadership during the Greece crisis- 2010-2011
06/15/2010
Papandreou has provided leadership on the issues facing Greece by walking the talk, with straight talk about the action needed, consulting economic experts in America who are in his inner circle, and working with European leaders for solutions. He has kept his profile modest and set a role model for his ministers and public officials.
Grouped Articles
George Papandreou Finds Balm for Greece Deficit
New York Times 06/15/10
BusinessWeek 06/24/10
At Impasse, Greek Leader Vows to Reset Cabinet
New York Times 06/15/11
Greek Leader Faces Key Confidence Vote
Wall Street Journal 06/21/11
Wall Street Journal 06/21/11
New York Times 06/21/11
Wal-mart Asda Britain.
05/28/2010
Grouped Articles
Sales at Wal-Mart’s U.K. Business Asda Fall Nearly 5%
Wall Street Journal 08/19/15
Wal-Mart’s Asda Shuffles Strategy to Shore up Sales
Wall Street Journal 10/20/15
Wal-Mart U.K. Deal Fits Goal: Go Small
Wall Street Journal 05/28/10
Wall Street Journal 06/30/10
Wall Street Journal 05/17/12
Top U.K. Supermarkets in Discount Challenge
Wall Street Journal 12/25/12
Roubini on China, currency issues, and domestic consumption in China.
05/17/2010
By letting the yuan China can shift the benefits to households, who will have more purchasing power, and reverse the shift that has taken place in the last 10 years, with domestic consumption making up about 36% of GDP- down by about 10 points from ten years earlier. State owned companies gained at the expense of households, as did infrastructure spending, but it is leading to misallocation of investments and hurting households. As a result China will hit a growth wall in the next 2-3 years, says Roubini.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/04/11
Europeâs Debt Crisis Is Casting a Shadow Over China
New York Times 05/17/10
An Accord (and Lessons) to Remember
Wall Street Journal 09/21/10
New York Times 09/30/10
Yuan Revaluation for China's Own Sake
Wall Street Journal 10/02/10
New York Times 09/25/10
Wall Street and the debt crisis in Greece.
02/10/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall St. Helped to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis
New York Times 02/14/10
Greece: How the Bond Vigilantes Left It in Ruins
BusinessWeek 02/10/10
Wall Street Journal 03/03/10
Strange Encounter: The IMF and Athens
BusinessWeek 04/22/10
Euro Rises After I.M.F. Increases Aid Pledge to Greece
New York Times 04/29/10
Wall Street Journal 05/22/10
Failure of the Copenhagen talks on global warming and climate change.
01/23/2008
The European view expressed by German Environment Minister Rottgen in an interview for Der Spiegel.
Grouped Articles
Paris Deal Would Herald an Important First Step on Climate Change
New York Times 11/29/15
Unknown 12/29/09
Economist 12/30/09
China, India, U.S. Take Steps Toward Emissions Deal
Wall Street Journal 12/12/11
U.S. Given Poor Marks on the Environment
New York Times 01/23/08
Wall Street Journal 01/23/08
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