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• "Wheel-clamp. Dogs. Vagrants. A tour of our wonderful capital city is not to be missed. The Fergie, The Princess Di and the football hooligan." -Describing the state of the nation in 1989's Translating The English
One of the reasons that GDP did so poorly is that capital expenditures fell at an annual rate of 38%. A fair portion of that drop was due to slow activity in the housing market. Recent figures on home sales should cause any capable analyst to believe that housing will...
At the end of the 19th century, Argentina was one of the world's richest countries; poor European emigrants found themselves choosing between New York City and Buenos Aires. Somewhere along the way, though, things took a turn. Much has been written about why some economies thrive while others flail...
A sign of the changing times was the recent high-class produce market chef Alain Ducasse organized at the Plaza Athénée Hôtel, where guests met the producers of the otherworldly fruits and vegetables Ducasse serves at his eponymous three-star restaurant, www.alain-ducasse.com: from Buddha...
Some of the revival is due to the greater availability of trade finance, which had dried up as banks clamped down on lending in late 2008, hamstringing global trade. But China, the world's third-largest economy, is likely a more crucial factor in the turnaround. China sits in the...