Saturday, April 16, 2011

G-20 Nations Reach Agreement on Markets

By AP / MARTIN CRUTSINGER and HARRY DUNPHY

(WASHINGTON) — The deal was announced in a joint statement issued following a day of talks among finance officials from the Group of 20 rich industrial nations and major emerging markets such as China and Brazil. The effort will monitor countries and prod them to take corrective actions when imbalances in such areas as foreign trade or government debt rise to excessive levels...

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G-20 Nations Reach Agreement on Markets

How to Save a Trillion Dollars

By Mark Thompson

On a damp, gray morning in late February, Navy admirals, U.S. Congress members and top officials of the nation's biggest shipyard gathered in Norfolk, Va., to watch a computerized torch carve bevels into a slab of steel as thick as your fist...

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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2065108,00.html

Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin

By John Cloud

As I write this, tomorrow is Tuesday, which is a cardio day. I'll spend five minutes warming up on the VersaClimber, a towering machine that requires you to move your arms and legs simultaneously. Then I'll do 30 minutes on a stair mill....

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Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin

Review: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel By Richard Corliss

Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death....

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http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2065413,00.html

Indian outpaces China

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/04/india_outpaces_china

China's foreign reserves: Who wants to be a triple trillionaire?

Window-shopping with China’s central bank

Europe's banks: Follow the money

Is Germany bailing out euro-area countries to save its own banks?

Financial careers: Go east, young moneyman

Ever more jobs in finance are migrating to growth markets, particularly in Asia

The global economy: Another year of living dangerously

Turmoil in the Middle East and disaster in Japan arouse economic angst. Central banks must not make it worse

America's Property Market: On a losing streak

The effects of America's worst property crash go very wide

http://www.economist.com/node/18440791

Jobs figures: A gentle tailwind

Employment is moving, ever so slowly, in Barack Obama’s direction

http://www.economist.com/node/18529797

Currencies: Carry On

Rich countries’ central banks are on divergent paths. So are their currencies.

Babel or Babble?

Languages all have their roots in the same part of the world. But they are not as similar to each other as was once though.

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http://www.economist.com/node/18557572

Democracy in America: The 1% solution

Democracy in America

Inequality

The 1% solution


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http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/04/inequality

Friday, April 15, 2011

Japan Earthquake Repercussions

Japan and the global supply chain

Broken links

The disruption to manufacturers worldwide from Japan’s disasters will force a rethink of how they manage production


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http://www.economist.com/node/18486015