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...trust diminishes, so too do transactions. In a Chicago Booth/Kellogg School survey carried out late last year, trust in the stock market was considerably lower among those planning to take money out of it than it was among those intent on leaving their investment alone or even increasing it. Moreover, after controlling for investors' expectations of how the market might perform in the future, trust levels had a positive influence on the decision to invest more in the markets, the survey found. (Find out 10 things to do with your money...
...number of the large countries that make up the E.U. began to form political and military and alliances after WWII and these expanded as the Soviet Union dissolved. Through the current financial crisis there has been very little coordinated economic policy among these same counties even though some of the economically weaker ones would certainly benefit from a program to shore up the financial health of the region by providing a pool of capital for temporary...
...Asia is doing what the West cannot do despite political and military divisions among many of them that go back decades. Nations in the region are building a coercive plan to protect the region's financial stability. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...alliance among the nations that support the military cooperation of NATO has not extended to a set of economic bonds that are even more important as the global financial crisis claims victims in countries such as Ireland and the old Eastern European block. That gives Asia an advantage as the recession continues...
...once banned television now boasts a sophisticated public relations machine that is shaping perceptions in Afghanistan and abroad. Although polls show the movement remains unpopular, the insurgents have readily exploited a sense of growing alienation fostered by years of broken government promises, official corruption, and the rising death toll among civilians from airstrikes and other military actions. "The result is weakening public support for nation-building, even though few actively support the Taliban," says a report from the International Crisis Group, a think tank that monitors conflicts. An American official in Afghanistan agrees: "We cannot afford to be passive [communicators...