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...package "isn't of an immediate miracle", and many more trials and jittery nerves would have to be overcome before the nightmare of the past months would be over. Still, the mere framework of a strategy proved sufficient to calm the fear that that drove last week's panic-driven sell...
...China's export-driven economy will suffer in a global slowdown, but the country is in a better position than many to ride out the storm, argues Kroeber of Dragonomics. "Commodity price are falling, reducing the price of manufacturing. And in any case, China makes the things you buy in Wal-mart and people will keep shopping there. It's countries that produce more high-end goods that will be worse affected...
...recent time polls - a national survey and a sample of battleground states, including Missouri - support the notion that a sour and deteriorating economy is helping Obama close the deal with white America. The Wall Street crisis has driven Bush's approval ratings to new depths, and McCain, at the helm of Bush's gop, is struggling to escape the undertow. Nearly two-thirds of the 1,098 people sampled in the national poll said they personally are going backward economically. Among these anxious voters, Obama had opened a huge lead - some 25 percentage points - over McCain. Obama appears...
...export-driven economies in Asia, there is little to do but wait and hope that the U.S. and Europe will find the right medicine. "We [in Asia] remain spectators in a sport in which spectators get hurt," Mowat wrote in a recent report...
...only 37, and my wife and I have never earned more than $80,000 in a single year. Yet we have already paid for two homes. I am angry about giving money to irresponsible individuals who borrowed far more than they could repay. They have driven home prices to historic levels by creating what amounts to artificial demand. We played by the rules: we paid our mortagages off. Some 25% of subprime housing borrowers did not. So who gets punished? People like my wife and me. Colin Buckley, Albuquerque, New Mexico...