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...potentially dangerous step. No one knows exactly how a withdrawal will affect the tentative global economic recovery - just as it is not clear, even now, whether interest-rate cuts and huge stimulus spending in the U.S. and elsewhere are resulting in sustainable economic growth. The world is in uncharted territory. Policymakers are acting on the fly, without much in the way of historical precedence to guide them...
...bring more uncertainty to the prospects for the global economy. One early casualty is the U.S. dollar, which has weakened significantly against most other major currencies. A continued fall appears likely as investors park their capital in Australia and elsewhere, because interest rates are trending higher there and economic growth is far more robust than...
...some of the $77 billion in programs that the DPJ offered to increase household disposable income. The purpose of this spending is to help shift Japan from an export-led economic model to one led by consumption. During the country's 2002-07 recovery, fully one-third of GDP growth was attributable to a rising trade surplus. As the severity of Japan's current recession showed, this is not a sustainable path. (Read Will an Opposition Victory Rescue Japan's Economy...
...second album this year, “Transitions,” is hardly a change—if anything, the album shows not growth but regression; Leslie’s tracks seem emptier and more unimaginative. The opening of “You’re Not My Girl,” for example, mimcs the bass line on Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust,” making use of an almost identical rhythmic structure. The song is more than unoriginal, however; it feels sparse and cheap, a sense that arises from Leslie?...
...meeting, Abbas told his PLO comrades that the U.S. had "cheated" him by retreating from its insistence that Israel end settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. "We welcomed it, and were optimistic when President Obama announced the need for a complete halt to settlements, including natural growth," Abbas said. "We were surprised by his support for the Israeli position." (The U.S. has backed Israel's argument that negotiations should resume despite the disagreement over the settlements. Last weekend U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew howls of protest across the region when she praised as "unprecedented" Israeli...