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...members resent Ozawa, who isn't nicknamed "The Destroyer" because he plays well with others. Ironically, the stress of coping with victory could tear the party apart as competing factions maneuver for newfound power. "I don't think the DPJ can survive this win," says Robert Feldman, chief Japan economist for Morgan Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get This Party Started | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...Chinese executives were in New York City for a week of business-school classes. Even before economist Glenn Hubbard--dean of Columbia Business School and former chief of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers--finished teaching on Monday morning, it was clear that his students had done their homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New China Syndrome | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...best-seller lists skip eagerly from one theory to the next, lingering with delight on the most provocative if not always the most plausible. A recent paper suggested that falling crime rates can be explained almost entirely by reduced lead exposure in childhood. Which was odd, because last year economist Steven Levitt's best seller Freakonomics chalked up the improvement to legalized abortion, which, he theorized, cut the number of unwanted children prone to wind up as criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth About Boys | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...sought to win by playing up people's fears [of political Islam]," said economist Ayse Bugra. "But it didn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruling Party Wins Big in Turkey | 7/22/2007 | See Source »

...says, that figure could slip to 2.1%. Economic growth won't escape unharmed, either. The threat of rising rates triggering a downturn is "greater today than it has been in the 10 years Labour have been in power," says Adrian Cooper, managing director of consultants Oxford Economics. So while economists are penciling in growth of 2.7% this year, expansion in 2008 could tumble to 2% says Karen Ward, U.K. economist at HSBC in London. "The new Chancellor," Ward adds, "is going to have to modify the opening line of his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Britain's Economy Slowing Down? | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

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