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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Christine S. Richard

AS MBIA PUT one crisis behind it, storm clouds were forming over the U.S. subprime mortgage market. The subprime mortgage market had become an increasingly important part of the U.S. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-15 | Author:Janet M. Tavakoli

Ralph Cioffi left Bear Stearns by mutual agreement on November 28, 2007, at the age of 51. His compensation reportedly soared to eight figures during his BSAM days. The less-leveraged ...

mobi |eng | 2004-04-02 | Author:Luis Alberto Urrea

The cutters know many things about a person by the nature of his tracks. They learned something about Mendez and his pollos in the days to come. Mendez always walked ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Meltzer, Allan H.

Foreign and Military Commitments In the years just after World War II, the United States gradually accepted responsibility for maintaining world political stability and countering the perceived threat from the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson

8 The Mortgage Bonanza Blows Out These were people who, in the five thousand years of recorded human house construction, never would have been granted a mortgage to purchase even ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Gar Alperovitz [Alperovitz, Gar]

The growing general retirement crisis thus adds to the longterm challenges confronting Social Security. This has helped create an environment in which, by necessity, much more far-reaching ideas have begun ...

epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...