Economics
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Thomas Frank

CHAPTER 8 Say, Don’t You Remember “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” was the so-called anthem of the Depression, a transcendent expression—if such a thing is possible—of the hopeless disillusionment ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-19 | Author:Steven Rattner

The head butting led Ron reluctantly to conclude that Fiat and the UAW would never reach agreement on their own. He summoned both parties to Washington and installed them in ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Michael Lewis

CHAPTER SIX Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-03-28 | Author:Kerr

Zoning – the political and social science of making the most efficient use of different types of land – is a crucial skill that Japan's bureaucrats have failed to master. ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Ron Suskind

12 Nowhere Man When Obama selected his B-team, he left in his wake a slew of jilted economists. The group was characterized largely by progressive, Keynesian thinkers, who soon enough ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Lewis, Michael [Lewis, Michael]

† Brian Lenihan is also, as Joan Burton pointed out, tricky. It’s racing up on eight in the evening when I meet him in a Department of Finance conference room. ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Mark Steyn

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD The ruling class divides its subjects into Representation and Taxation categories. Favored groups are those that will expand the dependent class and, therefore, the dependent-administration class. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Luigi Zingales

THE WRONG FIXES One natural political response to this state of affairs is protectionism. Given the economic fundamentals, there has been surprisingly little pressure for that so far. One possible ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Simon Johnson & James Kwak

The story of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 has been told many times.10 Policymakers, economists, and commentators have pointed to many causes and contributing factors, ranging from “oversaving” in China ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Peter Marber

Immigration and Security The 9/11 attacks and subsequent 2005 London subway bombings have made immigrants appear as the number one terrorist enemy of the Western world. There has been legislation ...
( Category: Economics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-08 | Author:Cavanagh, John & Mander, Jerry [Cavanagh, John]

196 CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING SCALE Changes in energy, transportation, and agriculture systems will make them more compatible with local economies and eliminate the wasteful resource uses that go with long-distance ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Eduardo Porter

SUPPORTERS OF PRIVATE financing of political campaigns claim the purchase of political influence in the United States is very different from buying votes. Politicians use money to provide voters with ...
( Category: Microeconomics March 25,2014 )