economy
Vietnam’s Communist Party meets
February 9, 2011The goal for the Vietnamese Communist Party's 11th Party Congress was to “enhance the Party's leadership capacity and combativeness, promoting the nation's synergy, comprehensively boosting the doi moi (renovation) process, creating the fundamentals for Vietnam to...
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Simple solutions for deficits and debt
February 9, 2011A few weeks ago Citigroup’s Robert Rubin wrote a column advising readers and policymakers on how to surmount the current economic and financial crisis. Beware of such counsel!
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GE, capitalist icon, teams up with Obama – why?
February 8, 2011The addition of General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to the third top Obama administration position on economic policy tells an important tale.
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Economists paint bleak picture of Great Recession aftermath
February 8, 2011A total of one out of every six workers are un- or underemployed.
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Anti-immigrant laws are problem, not solution, study shows
February 7, 2011A new study shows that "enforcement only" strategies are likely to cause large scale suffering and disruption rather than solve the undocumented immigration problem.
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