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1.
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany’s Export Boom
Because the Chinese currency moves in lockstep with the dollar, the yen is rising against the renminbi, even as the euro has gotten cheaper. But economists and company executives caution ...
Germany, Kuka, Japan, Machinery, China, All keywords...
nytimes.com
2 days ago
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Strong Yen Is Helping to Fuel Germany's Export Boom
FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots ...
Japan, Kuka, Germany, Machinery, China, All keywords...
nytimes.com
2 days ago
3.
Local Chocolate, for Local Consumption
BERGL, AUSTRIA — In 1996, Josef Zotter’s bakery business in Graz, Austria, was floundering. Facing bankruptcy, he decided to close shop and go back to his roots, a village named ...
Josef Zotter, Brazil, Zotter Schokoladen Manufaktur, Nicaragua, BERGL, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 days ago
4.
Lloyd's adds its voice to dire 'peak oil' warnings
One of the City's most respected institutions has warned of "catastrophic consequences" for businesses that fail to prepare for a world of increasing oil scarcity and a lower carbon economy. ...
Peak oil, Insurance market, Oil, Insurance claims, China, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 month ago
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As Chinese Wages Rise, Machines Replace Migrant Workers
An employee works on the assembly line at Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen. Foxconn Technology Group said it is investing in factory equipment to reduce its reliance on ...
China, Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Foxconn Technology Group, Hong Kong Trade Development Council, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
2 months ago
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Exchange Rate Angst and Rebalancing
The euro is a relatively small component of the US trade weighted exchange rate. The persistence of exchange rate movements is important in determining the impact on trade flows. Rebalancing ...
USD, United States, China, Japan, Germany, All keywords...
econbrowser.com
2 months ago
7.
American made ... Chinese owned
But for hundreds of Chinese companies like Yuncheng, the U.S. has become a better, less expensive place to set up shop. It could be the biggest role reversal since, well ...
China, United States, South Carolina, USD, America, All keywords...
money.cnn.com
3 months ago
8.
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business [by Charlie Munger]
If you want to be the best tennis player in the world, you may start out trying and soon find out that it's hopeless—that other people blow right by you. ...
United States, Corporate travel departments, Pascal, Chiropractor, Educational systems, All keywords...
ycombinator.com
3 months ago
9.
Deepwater Horizon Rig Disaster Threatens Drilling
BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through ...
BP Plc, USD, Oil, Houma, President, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
3 months ago
10.
Death and Taxes 2011: Visual Guide to the Federal Budget
The 2011 edition of the Death and Taxes poster is out, which outlines in spectacular detail how the United States federal budget spends its (your?) tax dollars. View the huge ...
USD, Medicare, United States, Supreme Court, U.S. government, All keywords...
mymoneyblog.com
4 months ago
11.
Can we handle the truth?
Both globally and within most nations, the patterns of consumption required to sustain existing social arrangements are inconsistent with the distribution of the fruits of production. Social and econ
Steve Randy Waldman, United States, GDP, Republican administration, Healthcare, All keywords...
interfluidity.com
4 months ago
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Tuesday, April 7, 1931: Dow 169.72 -2.71 (1.6%)
Assorted historical stuff: Canada's banking system offers interesting comparison with the recent epidemic of bank failures here. From 1900 to the present there have been only 4 chartered bank failure
USD, T. Grant March, Hoover, Watson, California, All keywords...
blogspot.com
4 months ago
13.
Backwards Economics
Regular economics involves someone starting a company and then hiring people to fill positions. That seems like a sensible model. But I wonder if the Internet gives us a way ...
Scott Adams, USD, ANIMATION, Healthcare costs, Federal government, All keywords...
com
5 months ago
14.
Deal to Sell Hummer to China Company Nears Collapse
Hostility from Chinese regulators and bank financing problems have raised obstacles to plans by a Chinese machinery company to buy the G.M. unit.
China, General Motors, Machinery, Italy, Imported oil, All keywords...
nytimes.com
6 months ago
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Companies boost productivity and put off hiring
Employers are managing to boost production without creating new jobs. The question is when they'll feel the need to ramp up hiring.Squeezing more
WASHINGTON, United States, Anika Khan, Julia Coronado, Economist, All keywords...
yahoo.com
7 months ago
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