Economics
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Even better for Arison and his family was yet another provision in the SEC public offering document that said: “The company intends to distribute dividends to all shareholders in at ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Dan Senor; Saul Singer

CHAPTER 9 The Buffett Test For our customers around the world, there was no war. —EITAN WERTHEIMER WE’RE NOT HERE TO STEAL WORKERS FROM MICROSOFT,” said Google’s Yoelle Maarek. “But,” ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Naomi Klein

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. —Michael Ledeen,The War against the Terror Masters, 2002 George's answer to ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Lanchester, John [Lanchester, John]

FIVE THE MISTAKE And yet the financial industry could still have got away with it. All the things described up until now could have been survived, and the resulting chaos ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |ru | 2012-03-25 | Author:Paul Krugman

CHAPTER EIGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFICIT? There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we’re taking a ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Thomas Geoghegan

5 Clash of Civilizations Meanwhile, America had become dark. There was the nightmare of Bush v. Gore. We did not seem like a democracy. We had big tax cuts for ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Marrs, Jim [Marrs, Jim]

OBAMA’S SCHOOL TALK When kindergartners in B. Bernice Young School sang a medley of two short songs praising the president in February 2009, alarm bells went off among many who ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Robert Guest

As apartheid rules became progressively harder to enforce, black incomes began to catch up with white ones. Between 1975 and 1990, average real black earnings in manufacturing rose by almost ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Paul Krugman

Argentina isn’t an Asian country. (Duh.) But Argentina had an Asian-style crisis in 2002, one that offered a painfully clear demonstration of how widely praised economic policies can lead a ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Schiff, Peter [Schiff, Peter]

Hurting the Vulnerable Think about the way Social Security pays out benefits: once you retire, SSA determines your monthly benefit, and then pays that to you every year (adjusted for ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

UNMASKING THE DEFICIT AGENDA: PRESERVING AND EXTENDING INEQUALITIES It might seem strange, in a country where tax rates at the top are already lower than they are in most of ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Importance of Meaningful Work Nearly every study of happiness underscores the importance of meaningful work to personal well-being. Unemployment is the single largest factor in the public’s unhappiness and ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Collier, Paul [Collier, Paul]

Are There Investment Opportunities? Could the reason why investment in Africa is so modest simply be because it does not offer a high return? After all, investors vote with their ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Bonner, William [Bonner, William]

Tran Quang Co put him on the spot: Mr. MacNamara admits his mistakes, which we admire, but he unfortunately attributes most mistakes to misjudgments and miscalculations. But we must also ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )