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...problems. Early in 2008, a weakening dollar was a factor in spiking prices of energy, commodities and food, which placed a disproportionate burden on the limited incomes of the poor. The dollar-dominated system has also allowed the U.S. to finance its budget and trade deficits at a low cost, which perpetuated the global imbalances that contributed to the current economic crisis. A system like the one proposed by Beijing, argues Deutsche Bank economist Jun Ma, would make it possible "for China and many other countries to avoid being victims of the systemic risks generated by domestic economic problems...
...most frightening characteristics is that the number of people whose jobless benefits run out is going to be large and will almost certainly grow substantially beginning relatively soon. This means that even though giving financial support to the unemployed may be an unbelievable expense, it may actually cost more to remove their government safety net and in some cases allow them to become indigent...
...Based on a true story, The Vagrants is a bleak masterpiece, written without sentimentality, its anger a cold, controlled fury rather than a shrill rage. The surface of its unshowy prose disguises an enormous achievement for the realist political novel. Li's relentless calibration of the cost paid by the innocent to sustain a dehumanizing and brutal sociopolitical order marks it as a milestone in the literature of oppressed, extinguished lives...
...worries because his lover of four years, Prior Walter, has just been diagnosed with AIDS. Jonah C. Priour ’09 does a remarkable job with Prior’s decline, presenting him as disheartened but determined to retain composure and a sense of humor no matter the cost. He comes the closest of any of the actors to being able to elicit both tears and laughter from the audience within seconds of each other.Another standout performance is that of Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 as Roy Cohn, the mean-spirited conservative lawyer in denial about...
...clinics. Where is all the money going to come from when the city is suffering in this way?" asks Tom Tresser, spokesman for No Games, one of the groups that protested. Hosting the Games, he says, "would be a city-killer for us." Officials say much of the Games' cost will come from private financing, and it certainly helps their case that most traditional Olympic sponsors are U.S. based - and that one of the biggest, McDonald's, is headquartered in suburban Chicago. But it's hard to imagine that many firms will make significant financial commitments in this grim economic...