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...clear where else China would stash the dollars it earns via its massive trade surplus other than in U.S. Treasuries. Europe's economies are in no better shape than the U.S.'s, and it has again become clear during this crisis that the dollar - not the euro - remains the world's safe-haven currency. Beijing's other option - bringing home the dollars it earns via trade - would complicate China's own monetary policy and possibly drive up the value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paulson in China: The Monster Under the Bed | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...which oversees the common currency in the 15-nation Euro zone, slashed its main lending rate three quarters of a percentage point to 2.5%, following two half percentage point cuts in October. Since credit markets are all but locked up in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September, the ECB has ratcheted down its main lending rate by a total of 1.75 percentage points. (Read " Will Europe's Bank Bailout Plan Really Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Europe's Central Bank Missing the Crisis? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, even before GM, Ford and Chrysler officials submit recovery proposals Tuesday in hopes of persuading Congress to steer aid their way, Europe has started to react. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a four-year, 400 million-euro package to help French automakers build more environmentally friendly cars. Sarkozy also called last week for the loosening of E.U. restrictions on direct state aid to companies, restrictions established to encourage more-competitive markets in Europe. "We can't have the Americans unlocking $25 billion in loans for their three manufacturers while we would be caught up in a state-assistance regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Bailout Fueling Trade Tensions with Europe | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...still flocking to stores such as Top Shop and H&M that offer high fashion at lowly prices. And the pound's weakness may yet boost tourism among foreign visitors hoping to snap up discounted goods at beneficial exchange rates. "The pound has declined 10% against the Euro and 28% against dollar compared to last year," says Elliott Frisby of the tourist authority Visit Britain. "There's never been a better time to holiday in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Black Friday: Getting a Jump on Holiday Gloom | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...Camp Grant massacre faded from American history: For many other Anglos, who preferred to view their history as a story of Euro-American progress, the Indian wars had become something of an embarrassment. ... the image of white men [and massacre instigators]married to Mexican women and only able to avenge themselves against the Apache through an alliance with the territory's Mexicans and [Tohono O'odham] fit poorly with the narrative of white mastery. ... The tendency to see Anglos as the primary actors in the region's historical drama not only bleached the polyglot character of the early U.S. borderlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massacre Explained | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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