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...Power & Associates. That's a positive sign, given that Buick is such an important brand for GM in China. Ford, which is in the best shape of the Detroit Three, has found success in its new Edge, in its F-150 pickup and in a global restructuring that will bring the best products from its overseas operations to the U.S. If there are new labor contracts in place, the domestic automakers also stand to be cost-competitive with the transplants, which will translate to more profit per car, even if selling smaller cars means fewer sales dollars...
...would be surprising if the G-20 did not push for more regulations of global financial firms. The banks and brokerage houses are easy to blame, and the blaming has the benefit of being accurate. They created the financial instruments that helped bring the global economy to its knees and sold them to institutions all over the world. The world is going to be hell for financial firms operating anywhere in the largest nations in the world. They will be regulated at unprecedented levels. (See pictures of the G-20 protests...
...nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, chief economist Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel argues forcefully that governments should do more to retrain workers and overhaul their labor-market policies to ensure that once recovery comes, new jobs are created in sufficient numbers to swiftly bring the jobless rate back down again. But ask him about the German short-work measures, and he's skeptical. "They can't stop rising unemployment," he says, "they just delay it." Indeed, in its latest economic forecast released March 31, the OECD expects unemployment in Germany to rise from its current...
...Over the past year, government officials have been somewhat hesitant to bring the issue of trade imbalances up because it isn't as pressing as getting people back to work and restoring confidence. At the first meeting of the G-20 last fall, it was hardly mentioned at all. But as former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said in November, it cannot be left untreated over the long term. "The pressure from global imbalances will simply build up again until it finds another outlet," he explained. (Read "The G-20 Summit: Obama Can Stay Home...
...either man, according to a senior U.S. Administration official, the joint statement released by the two nations said both countries want to deal with the underlying causes. "[Obama] underscored that once recovery is firmly established, the United States will act to cut the U.S. fiscal deficit in half and bring the deficit down to a level that is sustainable," the statement reads. "President Hu emphasized China's commitment to strengthen and improve macroeconomic control and expand domestic demand, particularly consumer demand, to ensure sustainable growth and ensure steady and relatively fast economic development...