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...unrelenting gloom. Interest rates are low, unlike in the early 1990s, and the price of oil has dropped from its peak earlier this summer as demand slows from the cooling global economy. That's good news for consumers everywhere. But the signs of economic woe still add up to a minefield that European governments, central banks and other policymakers will have to navigate carefully. Here are some of the mines that lie in wait for them...
Under international accounting rules, the government should rightfully add the liabilities of those banks to its national debt. RBS's liabilities alone exceed the total national income of the U.K. Even excluding them, Brown is almost certain to break one of his own cardinal rules by failing to keep the total debt level below 40% of national income. Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, estimates that Britain's budget deficit for the current fiscal year will likely grow from the government's planned 2.8% of GDP to about...
...place. Higher education observers in England worry that their universities will continue to fall behind American peers due to their comparative poverty. Oxford’s endownment stands at a fifth the size of Harvard’s coffers. In May, the university announced a massive fundraising campaign to add $2.18 billion to its accounts. According to the Times Higher Education publication, spending on university in the United Kingdom is less than half of that in the United States, as a proportion of gross domestic product...
...neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar Hill, in the narrow slum alleys of Dharavi, women were getting their toes painted, and now it was my turn, like anyone else, to add to the city’s kaleidoscope of color...
With OCW gaining so much popularity, other schools have followed suit. In the fall of 2007, Yale made course materials for seven popular courses available online and will add nearly 30 more within the next three years. Carnegie Mellon has launched its Open Learning...