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...Dobbs has used his platform on America’s most trusted news network to promote a vision of the country that has become more about exclusion and anxiety and less about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And he’s done it with a jaundiced eye. For some time now, “Mr. Independent” has spent less time offering fresh political commentary than giving credence to cultural prejudices...
...limits of control on the ground by NATO forces and the certainty that they'll leave at some point. And so he has been protecting his interests by making deals with some pretty unsavory characters who wield real power on the ground - and that often requires turning a blind eye to corruption and other transgressions. Washington is looking to turn up the heat on Karzai to crack down on corruption by making clear that its commitment to Afghanistan is finite. Yet if Karzai took the threat of a U.S. pull-out seriously, it could make him even more reliant...
...stimulus measures that policymakers put in place to combat the global recession. There is clearly a link between Beijing's ultra-loose monetary policy and the run-up in property prices. The amount of new loans granted by Chinese banks in the first 10 months of 2009 surged an eye-popping 144%, to $1.3 trillion, from the same period in 2008. The easy money policy has led to a fantastic increase in property deals - up 82% in October (by volume of floor space) from the same month a year earlier. There is also concern percolating that home prices in major...
...just looked at each other and knew…it might have been simultaneously, by eye contact,” said Johnson. “Yep, that’s exactly how I think it happened...
There is reason to believe such eye-popping spending can continue. As more regions of China's vast hinterland join in its amazing economic boom, more and more of the country's 1.3 billion people can afford cars, refrigerators and flat-panel TVs items not too long ago considered luxuries for a fortunate few. Chen Baogen, Xi'an's mayor, says his city of eight million had lagged behind towns on the export-oriented coast, but now incomes are growing to the point where consumption is taking off. In the first nine months of 2009, retail sales in the city...