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...industry accounts for almost 16% of the Texas gross domestic product, double what it was five years ago, and that means any slowing in that sector will have a ripple effect on the state's overall economy. "There are signs of a slowdown," says Amarillo energy economist Karr Ingham. "The jury is still out on whether it will become a bust...
...Excluding this scenario, the Canadian economy is expected to shrink 1.6% in the fourth quarter, on an annualized basis, followed by two consecutive quarters of decline, according to TD Bank Financial Group. After that conditions are expected to improve, but "it's going to be a shallow recovery," says economist Beata Caranci with TD Bank. She expects a contraction of 1.4% for all of 2009, followed by growth...
...abuzz with ideas about future forms of money. One visionary, Jean-Francois Noubel, co-founder of AOL-France, foresees "millions of free currencies circulating on the Net and through our cell phones" as money follows the distribution path that media have over the past decade. Bernard Lietaer, a Belgian economist and author who helped develop the euro, has proposed the Terra, a transnational currency backed by established commodities that would coexist with conventional notes, the monetary equivalent of Esperanto...
...most ambitious reform efforts is Michelle Rhee’s revamping of the Washington, D.C., public-school system, widely regarded as one of the worst in the nation. The Economist reports that if the district were a state, its test scores would be the lowest in the country. Rhee has taken aggressive steps to change this. Her proposal would increase baseline teacher salaries from around $40,000 to $78,000 a year, and high-performing teachers who were willing to forgo tenure would receive a salary of up to $130,000. A combination of improved efficiency and private donors would...
...with November, 2006. The result marked the country's first decline in exports in seven years and was a sharp reversal of the double-digit growth rates manufacturers have typically posted in recent years. The drop was "a shock figure," says Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "I had expected exports to collapse in the final few months but not to this extent. There really isn't a precedent. It underscores the magnitude of the global slowdown and fact that it's spilling into China...