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...report is a product of an IOP student policy group examining the deficit of women in politics...
...years leading up to his exit in 2002, Knowles would pull the Faculty out of a deficit and back building projects that included the refurbishment of freshman dormitories and the conversion of the old Freshman Union into a new humanities hub, the Barker Center. The reception following Knowles’ service was held in Annenberg Hall, in the shadow of the Memorial Hall tower which Knowles renovated during his first term as dean, healing the damage left over from a 1956 fire...
...With so few potential depositors at home, the nation's banks have little choice but to raise capital abroad. Furthermore, the size of Iceland's economy - the U.S. economy is roughly a thousand times larger - has always made it volatile, partially explaining its much-discussed $2.7 billion current-account deficit. "If my father decides to build a garage onto his house, it will almost show up in national accounts," she quips. So imagine the impact of constructing two large aluminum smelters from 2005 to 2007. Those projects required the import of generators and other materials, and amounted...
...question of more than regional interest. The U.S. has been on a three-decade binge during which imports have far exceeded exports, with the trade deficit peaking at $758 billion, or 5.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), in 2006. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing has been endlessly debated, with no clear resolution. But it does seem to be an unsustainable thing. The U.S. finances its deficit with money borrowed from abroad. At some point, those foreign lenders will want to be paid back. While there are several ways to go about this--inflating...
Thanks to the declining dollar and the relative weakness of the U.S. economy, that's already starting to happen. The trade deficit was down to 5.1% of GDP in 2007, will probably drop further this year and would be even smaller if it weren't for the spike in oil prices (oil imports equaled...