With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans.
With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans.
By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
Two years after Wal-Mart came to India, it is trying to do to agriculture here what it has done to industries around the world:
change business models by using its hyper-efficient practices to improve productivity and speed the flow of goods.
The dual-pipeline project, the first phase of which is to be completed in 2011, will allow Russia to pump its natural gas directly under the Baltic Sea to Germany … and is the result of an immense support effort from German industry and politicians.
Malaysia is working to become the first country in Asia to sign a voluntary agreement with the European Union guaranteeing that all timber exports to the area have been harvested legally.
Malaysia is working to become the first country in Asia to sign a voluntary agreement with the European Union guaranteeing that all timber exports to the area have been harvested legally.
Land acquisition for expanding cities and industry is one of the most bitterly contentious issues in India, rife with corruption and violent protests.
Yet in some areas it has created pockets of overnight wealth, especially in the outlying regions of the capital, New Delhi,
In March 2008, New York governor Eliot Spitzer – the most effective regulatory adversary of Wall Street since the New Deal –
resigned suddenly from office when it was discovered he had been a regular user of high-end “escort services”. [br]
Nearly 150 years after American railroads brought in thousands of Chinese laborers to build rail lines across the West, China is poised once again to play a role in American rail construction.
But this time, it would be an entirely different role: supplying the technology, equipment and engineers to build high-speed rail lines.[br]
