When the regent of Lamongan, a coastal rice-growing region on the island of Java, first toured China as part of an official delegation, his eyes went wide.
Here was the future, he thought: skyscrapers and humming factories and grand highways.
When the regent of Lamongan, a coastal rice-growing region on the island of Java, first toured China as part of an official delegation, his eyes went wide.
The Conservatives and Liberals have formed a coalition they call a ‘new kind of politics’ – but not new enough to represent all of the United Kingdom.
Great Britain has been transfixed by an election last Thursday that resulted in no clear winner.
12 May 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
“I think I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so”
12 May 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
“I think I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so”
The nation’s five largest banks – JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo – which dominate the derivatives business,
have dispatched trade groups, paid lobbyists and their own executives to lobby Washington in full force …
Ever since computerized trading became dominant in the nation’s stock markets in recent years,
market experts have been warning that the lack of consistent rules among exchanges and the increasing complexity and speed of computer trading systems could destabilize markets.
It seems things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
because we just received his excellent translation into Spanish [br]
Even as they struggle to understand the origins and particulars of Thursday’s chaos,
regulators, traders and academics seem to agree the gist of the solution is that markets need uniform rules for intervening when a stock goes into free fall.
Even as they struggle to understand the origins and particulars of Thursday’s chaos,
Cable news anchors and financial Web sites struggled to keep up as the Dow fell nearly 1,000 points and then mostly rebounded in a matter of minutes Thursday afternoon …
Web sites like Bloomberg.com were hammered by traffic, causing technical problems, though the company’s Bloomberg terminals remained up and running …
In general, as several of you have noticed, we try to highlight in this In the News column, LESS noticed, but nevertheless crucial, items from the mainstream media / institutions about the global political economy … [br]
Nevertheless, we have gotten SO many emails / chats etc about this amazingly informative graphic in the New York Times that we feel like we HAVE to put it up,
India’s cities are expanding on a larger scale and at a faster pace than ever before.
To date, though, the country has avoided dealing with the hard questions about how best to manage its massive urbanization.
