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...again, but which eventually fixes itself and roars back to the front of the pack," says Mark Duckenfield, a professor of politics in the world economy at the London School of Economics. "The European leaders proposing this international regulation are generally conservative, not wild-eyed socialists. Still, any effort to come up with international rules applicable to the U.S. usually raises fears about American businesses finding themselves hog-tied as a result-which gets Joe the Plumber types shouting bloody murder." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...better regulation of hedge funds-investment schemes that had helped made London Europe's finance capital. But on Sunday, Brown wrote in Britain's Observer newspaper that finance markets and banks should be obliged to factor the collective interest of long-term economic gain into their activities, an effort he said should serve as "the foundation on which a new system must be based...
...part, the UAW has obliged in an effort to blunt demands for even greater concessions from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, which have accepted government loans. Traditionally, the UAW has had better relations with Ford than with GM or Chrysler...
...people as possible, ignoring every natural or national boundary. Unpretentious and supremely practical, he will surely engage in the dirtiest of commercial habits: He will spy on his competitors to stay a few steps ahead, fire incompetent employees with alacrity, and invent new business models, all in an effort to capture new market space. It is hard to fathom the ingenuity we would witness if capitalists participated fully in the one-half-trillion dollar market of educating American children, sights set broadly on the trillions more that lay beyond our borders...
...citizens of the Golden State - will help bridge the extraordinary $42 billion deficit next year by paying approximately $1,000 in additional taxes, fees and loss of dependent tax credits. And this figure will remain at that level only if we make no purchases for 12 months in an effort to avoid the new 1-cent-on-the-dollar increase in sales...