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...every nation is to protect its citizens against long-term unemployment and the resultant poverty. I am not advocating tariffs or large-scale protection from imports but it is important that we maintain employment through restoring our essential manufacturing base, which has been considerably eroded through manufacturers going offshore. Add to this the encouragement of consumers to buy homemade goods and products and if this is achieved, along with maintaining employment, then the impact of the economic crisis will certainly be reduced. This is basic first aid while the brains of the financial world determine just how to organize...
...Add the usual Harvard-Yale rivalry, and it’s an understatement to say that there was no love lost on Saturday...
Safety First. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has fined Southwest a $7.5 million penalty for operating 46 planes on over 50,000 flights without performing mandatory maintenance checks - for example, failing to monitor fuselage fatigue and cracking. Southwest also agreed to rewrite its maintenance manuals, add more on-site technical representatives to oversee maintenance, and designate a full-time head of quality assurance. The FAA says the airline is now in compliance with official regulations, so passengers shouldn't be worried; in fact, Southwest has agreed to go above and beyond mandatory safety checks, the FAA says...
Many analysts and observers say Kudrin is being massively optimistic. Talk of 2% or 3% growth next year are "the numbers of a public official who is trying not to add fuel to the fire of public fears," says Roland Nash, chief strategist at Renaissance Capital. "There are a lot of politics being played out and a lot of fears. I don't think anybody anywhere trusts any forecasts right...
...Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos who was convicted of fraud and tax evasion, is back in court, along with his former business partner Platon Lebedev - also serving eight years on a tax evasion conviction - to face fresh charges of embezzling $25 billion. A conviction could add another 22 years to the current eight-year sentence of which he has served five and a half years. The tycoon was convicted in 2005 of fraud and tax evasion, but prosecutors have introduced the new charges, claiming they are based on evidence brought forward by erstwhile Yukos subsidiary companies...