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Nov
2009
Russia’s Road to Economic Recovery

15 hours ago by Rok Spruk

Russia’s recessionary contraction has been marked with several distinct features. First, capital account deteriorated significantly. In Q3:2009 it posted a $23.7 billion deficit, reflecting net capital outflows as a result of recovery uncertainties, exchange rate and oil price volatility and the ina ...

Citizen Economists - citizeneconomists.com/blogs · Rank: 91,485 · 83 references

US interest rates turn negative

22 hours ago by Paul Hodges

The irresponsibility of some parts of the global banking system continues to upset the blog. First, there was news that several banks are planning to award themselves huge 'bonuses', based largely on their trading success. Yet the money they are using for this trading has mostly been provided by cen ...

Chemicals & The Economy - icis.com/blogs/chemicals-and-the-economy · 11 references

Innovation

23 hours ago by Frank Schreiber

Selected from Delancey Place In today’s excerpt – historically, 85% of the increase in per capita GDP (gross domestic product or wealth) in the U.S. economy has come from innovation – the invention of new products and services or the invention of better ways to make existing products and services. I ...

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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

1 day ago by getinsti

I only yesterday saw that Al Gore has published a new book: “Our Choice”, with the subtitle “A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”. How exciting that the former Vice President, and Nobel Prize winner, has written a book with a subtitle that eerily rings of the ideas promoted on this web-site and in my ...

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Edmund Phelps

1 day ago by editor

Nobel Prize Winning Global Economist Edmund Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and director of Columbia’s Center on Capitalism and Society. His work can be seen as a program to put “people as we know them” back into economic models - to take into account the inc ...

The Leading Speakers Bureau - speakersbulgaria.com · 2 references

19
Nov
2009
China’s Bull: Don’t Rest On Its Economic Laurels

1 day ago by Stock Trading Tips

To many, China’s recent economic data suggests their bull market is here to stay: The 3rd quarter 2009 saw a 16% leap in industrial production and retail sales, and a strong rise in GDP to 8.9%… Does that sound familiar? IT SHOULD. Just two years ago, China’s economic numbers were similarly strong. ...

madpennies.com - madpennies.com · Rank: 79,152 · 1 reference

Hugo Chavez Strikes Again

1 day ago by Gabriella Stern

Venezuela’s economy shrank 4.5% in the third quarter, so the country’s boss is going to change how gross domestic product is measured: “We simply can’t permit that they continue calculating GDP with the old capitalist method,” he said in a televised speech to members of his socialist party. “Capital ...

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Cast a vote for GrowthBusters

1 day ago by Dave Gardner

Our documentary project has a great opportunity to recieve $15,000 worth of web/creative services from Free Range Studios, the wonderful folks behind Annie Leonard’s remarkable internet sensation/film, Story of Stuff. Your votes will ultimately choose who wins this grant. Please visit the grant/voti ...

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People no happier than 50 years ago

1 day ago by Joe Cahill

Irish Times We are no happier today than 50 years ago, despite all the economic growth, a conference in Dublin heard. Dr Adolfo Morrone from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris said there was evidence to show people trusted each other – and their governments – less th ...

Pavee Point Media Monitor - pavee.ie/mediamonitor · 3 references

18
Nov
2009
Abu Dhabi looks to build its petchem activities

2 days ago by Paul Hodges

IPIC, Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company, made a very shrewd acquisition of Nova at the bottom of the market, earlier this year. And now they are apparently in talks with a number of major chemicals companies about joint ventures and possibly acquisitions. The key for IPIC is to ...

Chemicals & The Economy - icis.com/blogs/chemicals-and-the-economy · 11 references

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