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Defence spending in a time of austerity : The chronic problem of exorbitantly expensive weapons is becoming acute
THERE were the starlings: aerobatic teams with mesmerising group displays. There were the albatrosses: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A380, heavy airliners that still manage long, effortless flight. And there ...
America, Europe, Robert Gates, Britain, Afghanistan, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Britain's high-minded government : David Cameron’s coalition will struggle to agree on crudely populist policies. That is both welcome and perilous
LOOK around the democratic world, and it would be easy to conclude that voters are very angry indeed. In country after country, political leaders seem intent on singling out scapegoats, ...
David Cameron, Britain, Nick Clegg, Australia, Lib Dems, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Defence spending in a time of austerity : The chronic problem of exorbitantly expensive weapons is becoming acute
THERE were the starlings: aerobatic teams with mesmerising group displays. There were the albatrosses: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A380, heavy airliners that still manage long, effortless flight. And there ...
America, Europe, Robert Gates, Britain, Afghanistan, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
4.
Britain's high-minded government : David Cameron’s coalition will struggle to agree on crudely populist policies. That is both welcome and perilous
LOOK around the democratic world, and it would be easy to conclude that voters are very angry indeed. In country after country, political leaders seem intent on singling out scapegoats, ...
David Cameron, Britain, Nick Clegg, Australia, Lib Dems, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
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Overview :
Japan’s GDP grew by 0.1% in the second quarter, far less than had been forecast.Industrial production in America rose by 1% in July, calming fears that the economy might dip ...
Japan, America, Manufacturing industries, Germany, The Netherlands, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Europe's economies: Turbocharged Germany
THE machine that sputtered badly during the slump in world trade is now firing on all cylinders. Figures released on August 13th showed that the German economy grew by 2.2% ...
Germany, Europe, India, China, America, All keywords...
economist.com
3 weeks ago
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Smuggled IPads Set to Flood China as Sales Start in Hong Kong
For Wang Pingdao, each day Apple Inc. waits to introduce its latest gadgets in China means extra profit from selling imported iPhones and iPads in Beijing. “The iPad is selling ...
China, Apple Inc., United States, Beijing, IPhone, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
1 month ago
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Europe CFOs Pick Dollar for Bonds as Faith in Euro Wavers
European borrowers are selling more of their bonds in dollars than at any time since the euro’s record low in 2000 as issuers lose faith in the common currency. Companies ...
USD, Bloomberg, Europe, EUR, United States, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
1 month ago
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British financier Anthony Ward behind £658m cocoa trade
Anthony Ward, 50, bought 241,000 tons of cocoa beans and now owns enough to manufacture 5.3 billion quarter-pound chocolate bars. Mr Ward, who is worth around £36 million, holds so ...
Anthony Ward, Carolyn Hart, Mayfair, Financier, Laura Roberts, All keywords...
telegraph.co.uk
1 month ago
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Migration: Not crossing continents
JUST as flows of capital and goods fell in the global economic slump, the churn of labour slowed too. Migration experts predicted as much, for both high and low-skilled workers, ...
United States, Economist, OECD, America, European Union, All keywords...
economist.com
1 month ago
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The Bay Area needs to act like a city-state
City-states have pragmatic governments. Pragmatism grows up from the local level, where decisionmakers witness the consequences of their decisions in their own backyards. Bay Area cities may be in considerable ...
California, Singapore, Sacramento, Greece, Austria, All keywords...
sfgate.com
1 month ago
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Breakup of single currency 'would plunge eurozone into deep recession'
January 2012. A cold winter has settled across Europe while the hard freeze gripping the economies of countries that once made up the eurozone is spreading across the globe. European ...
Mark Cliffe, Ing Wednesday 7 July, Greece, Europe, Spain, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 month ago
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
When he boarded his flight from London to Oslo, Farouk al-Kasim, a young Iraqi geologist, knew his life would never again be the same. Norway was a country about as ...
Farouk al-Kasim, Norway, Oil, Martin Sandbu, Solfrid, All keywords...
ft.com
2 months ago
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Bay Area Prepares for World Cup - The Bay Citizen
Some claim that soccer will never gain a significant foothold in American culture—that it offers too little scoring and can’t be broken down into clean statistics such as passing yards, ...
San Francisco, The World Cup, South Africa, Soccer, United States, All keywords...
baycitizen.org
2 months ago
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NYT review of 1cThe Upside 1d
The New York Times Sunday Book Review, just published a review of the Upside of Irrationality. In general I think that the review is very good, but there is one ...
Dan Ariely, The New York Times, Cent, The Netherlands, Senior professor, All keywords...
danariely.com
2 months ago
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