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...global capital system trading up and down 25% a day, and, in some cases trading in the pennies. Banks became the visible and ugly wound that reminded Wall St. each day that it had torn down what it spent decades building, which was a money-making machine driven by leverage and the cleverest synthetic financial instruments the world has ever seen...
Yoon, a Princeton and Harvard Kennedy School graduate, said that while he would never categorically criticize the BRA’s record, he does see the agency as excessively “linked to politics.” To make development a more “community-driven process,” he said that the BRA should be restructured—perhaps by separating the agency’s planning and development functions—in order to ensure that the voices of community members and developers are balanced...
...cultural ownership.”“ART IS WEIRD”As innovative as technologies like MuseTrek have been in compelling interaction with artwork, doubts remain about the seamless integration of art and technology.“It’s important to not see art as driven as technology,” Cornell says. “Artists are turning technology into art, but… it’s less a celebration [of technology] and more about they employ it in their vision.”Thorington agrees, citing her work from the 1980s...
...wrong path. Its flagship manufacturing giants have been pummeled by the crash in worldwide consumer demand. Exports fell by nearly 50% year-over-year in January and February; the economy as a whole is expected to shrink by 6.6% in 2009. "Japan must reinvent its export-driven growth model," Aso said Thursday...
...That situation can be changed over time with appropriate policies, Roubini notes, but the government has been "woefully slow" to implement them. In the months ahead, China's economy will instead be driven by the government's $585 billion stimulus spending program and easy credit. This may prove to be enough to stave off a major economic contraction, but government measures alone will not rekindle high growth rates...