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...resistance army against Israel and has impressed the Israelis with its willingness to enforce calm on the West Bank. But Dayton and others have warned that the force derives its motivation - and its ability to withstand charges by fellow Palestinians that it is doing Israel's work - from the belief that is the security nucleus of an emerging Palestinian state. Absent the prospect of imminent statehood, the men trained by Dayton may lack an incentive to police the West Bank. (See pictures of life in the West Bank settlements...
...those questioned across 27 countries saying that it is working well. Perhaps not surprisingly, France led the world with 43% who say capitalism is "fatally flawed." Le Monde, meanwhile, reported on Saturday that the economic crisis has revived support for decroissance, a leftist, ecologically driven philosophy that questions the belief in economic growth as a public good...
...economists presented the commission’s belief that their criteria of looking at income and consumption, happiness, objective measures of freedom, and freedom for well-being would provide a more accurate examination than...
...During his confirmation hearings in January, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner accused China of manipulating its currency, driving down the value of the renminbi to make Chinese exports cheap. That provoked a furious response from Beijing, and since then Geithner has toned down his message. While he expressed a belief commonly held by economists, an official finding of currency manipulation by the U.S. government would trigger negotiations with China and possibly duties on Chinese imports. In October, the Treasury Department said that the renminbi was undervalued, but that China was not a currency manipulator...
...second term. As the Bush Administration did throughout the dollar's slide, Geithner recently declared the importance of a strong dollar, even as it has continued to fall. Asian countries have huge dollar reserves and are skittish about the future of their holdings. Obama will attempt to bolster their belief in the currency's stability...