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Beware the Global Consequences of Further Declines in the American Middle Class

Source: The Huffington Post

Apple Computer issued bonds last week . Issuing $17 billion of bonds to buy back stock and pay dividends might seem odd for a company that is sitting on an estimated $145 billion of cash, but much of this money was earned overseas and Apple, li ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post  More like this  May 11 2013, 9:55am CDT

Is Energy Independence a Myth?

Source: The Atlantic

CNN on the myth of energy independence Bryan Walsh interviews energy analyst Michael Levi about what "energy independence" means in the real world "Is energy independence anything more than just a slogan?" Walsh a ...
Full article at: The Atlantic  More like this  May 10 2013, 4:15pm CDT

Just look at what the World Bank’s Noam Chomsky-admiring boss is doing

Source: The American | American Enterprise Institute

Rumors are flying around that the World Bank will water down or even abandon its ten-year old Doing Business series which measures the extent and quality of pro-growth economic policies in individual countries round the world. A co ...
Full article at: The American | American Enterprise Institute  More like this  May 10 2013, 11:34am CDT

The World Bank wants to fight climate change. Here are four ways it can help.

Source: The Washington Post

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says he is determined to make a difference in the world’s response to global warming. In a major report last year , the bank warned that the globally agreed-upon goal of limiting the pla ...
Full article at: The Washington Post  More like this  May 10 2013, 8:57am CDT

10 Years Doing Business, Measuring Results, and Now Bill Gates

Source: Hoover Institution

Rumors are flying around that the World Bank will water down or even abandon its ten-year old Doing Business series which measures the extent and quality of pro-growth economic policies in individual cou ...
Full article at: Hoover Institution  More like this  May 10 2013, 8:12am CDT

Open Society Foundations and the World Bank Get Behind Education for Roma

Source: Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, and Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, on May 10, visited Frumuşani, a small Roma village on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania. In Frumuşani, the ...
Full article at: Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network  More like this  May 10 2013, 6:44am CDT

China wrestles with stubborn air polluters

Source: The Washington Post

BEIJING — Early on in Beijing’s winter of pollution-wracked discontent, one of China's biggest power companies, Huadian, turned off the coal scrubbers at its Datong plants and let emissions of sulfur dioxide, a leading cause ...
Full article at: The Washington Post  More like this  May 10 2013, 5:46am CDT

NEWS: Spalding to depart Dartmouth

Source: The Dartmouth

Senior vice president and senior advisor to the president David Spalding ’76 announced on Thursday that he will leave Dartmouth to become dean of Iowa State University’s College of Business, beginning Aug. 1. During ...
Full article at: The Dartmouth  More like this  May 10 2013, 12:48am CDT

Doing In Business at the World Bank

Source: Wall Street Journal

The World Bank has a better record swelling its own lending portfolio than alleviating global poverty, and these columns have argued that the world's poor would be best served by winding the institution down. The bank certainly wouldn't help its ...
Full article at: Wall Street Journal  More like this  May 7 2013, 2:58pm CDT

Finance Minister On Another Campaign

Source: AllAfrica.com

Minister Amara Konneh says despite enduring political and economic challenges, post-conflict Liberia is rebuilding its institutions and beginning to provide citizens with basic services that were destroyed during the war. According ...
Full article at: AllAfrica.com  More like this  May 7 2013, 9:27am CDT


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