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...Somehow, it seems futile to say. "Maybe it?s just the lack of a recovery that?s wearing everybody out," investment strategist Frank Gertz says quotably in this weeks? TIME, and TSTW couldn?t agree more - especially when it comes to himself. Here?s another take, albeit an unintentionally metaphorical one, on the drab and seemingly endless status quo, courtesy of the NYT?s Buster Olney in Monday?s New York Times sports section (metaphor-wrecking phrases excised...
CareGroup continued to hemmorage financially under Reinertsen’s direction, albeit at a slower rate...
...proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity. There is an objectifying component to the kokujo's particular infatuation, and by definition that is dehumanizing. If you are saying a black is better than a white, that's racism, albeit through a twisted, hip-hop hula hoop. And isn't part of the appeal of these black Americans that they represent some taboo, the stereotype of potency and virility, combined with the perception that Western men are more romantic than Japanese...
...Korea has done more to reform its profligate ways but the government still props up sick companies with state funds, discouraging the kind of restructuring that would create more competitive businesses. Taiwan sailed through the crisis in 1997, but it is now reckoning with a Thai-style banking fiasco, albeit a less serious one. Taiwanese banks lent heavily to a sinking property sector, and now around 15% of their loans aren't being serviced...
...Unfortunately Asia and Latin America have gotten into the habit of believing they are dependent on this trio for growth. They have largely accepted, albeit grudgingly, that the three have the right to control the global economic agenda, not least through the International Monetary Fund, an organization that never criticizes Alan Greenspan's money-printing excesses but rarely hesitates to publicly lecture Asian governments, even the prudent ones...