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Suddenly Japan is caught in a powerful downdraft of pessimism. A vexing combination of tightening financial conditions, trade tension with the U.S. and political weakness at the top has sent Tokyo's financial markets into a funk. The slide is threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap the ebullient confidence that has filled Japanese investors and businessmen in recent years. "The pendulum has once again swung in Japan," says Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute. "It's now over to the doom-and-gloom side, when objectively speaking, Japanese companies remain the strongest...
...will be bigger, stronger." The Arab states correctly read this to mean that Israel is counting on the surge of immigration to ensure its domination of its neighbors for decades to come. No matter how clearly the Arabs see that threat, their pressure is unlikely to force Gorbachev to choke off Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. The future success of perestroika will depend heavily on economic and technical assistance from the West, and part of the fee Gorbachev will have to pay for such help is to provide an open door for those of his countrymen who want...
With both Japan and West Germany trying to dampen their growth, the risk is that their measures will completely choke it off in the U.S. The situation once again puts the Federal Reserve in a precarious position. If the Fed leaves interest rates where they are, the economy might slide into a recession. But if it eases rates, the already flagging U.S. dollar might slump even more, which could readily spark inflation because Americans would have to pay more for imports. Even so, the Bush Administration hopes that the Fed will ease its grip on credit. Bush publicly called...
Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...
...family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated Lyndon Johnson's goodwill for his own benefit and later repaid his predecessor with small kindnesses. Fact: Viet Nam and other realities he inherited on Inauguration Day forced him to choke his own genuine hawkishness and preside over the retreat of American power...