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...jobs they otherwise wouldn't. But, as Grant's Interest Rate Observer, an influential Wall Street newsletter, points out in its latest issue, "Massive injections of money and credit ... are always bullish before they are bearish." The newsletter draws worrying parallels between China's current credit boom and the gush of lending that produced the U.S. housing bubble, the collapse of which devastated the financial sector and triggered the global credit crisis and current recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can China Save the World? | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...heartland the prophets would not recognize, replete as it is with pizza parlor, jazz nights at the coffee shop, grocery store and yellow electronic gate with machine-gun-wielding guards. Efrat is one of 17 settlements that make up a bloc called Gush Etzion, located not in Israel but in the occupied West Bank. The Katzes (Sharon, husband Israel and five children) consider themselves law-abiding citizens. They publish a small community magazine and take part in civic projects. Sharon raises money for charity by putting on tap-dancing and theater shows. And yet to much of the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settlers Versus the Palestinians | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...Netanyahu government, like its predecessors, makes a distinction between what it calls "legal" settlements like the Gush Etzion bloc (pop. 75,000) and "illegal" outposts deeper in the West Bank. Within sight of the Arab city of Nablus, settler Itay Zar, 33, lives in a two-room shanty with his wife and their five children, above a stretch of road at risk from Palestinian snipers. Zar's father, Moshe Zar, is one of the biggest - and therefore most despised by Palestinians - Jewish buyers of Arab land in the West Bank. Zar grew up in the West Bank. His outpost - named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settlers Versus the Palestinians | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...Palestinian Authority forbids that. But he can't afford to leave the fields fallow - and open to Israeli confiscation. Three Sarras brothers and a cousin tend the fields under the constant surveillance of video cameras at the edge of a nearby settlement. They complain that settlers from the Gush Etzion bloc have come in the night and uprooted or poisoned olive trees. "I am willing to live with Israelis," Sarras says. "But they will not live with us." Shaul Goldstein, mayor of the Gush Etzion regional council, defends his community's dealings with local Arabs. "We have the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settlers Versus the Palestinians | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...market consumers are willing to go without a new Dell (DELL). Dell does not have much of a brand anymore. Even though HP (HPQ) is the largest PC company in the world, people do not gush about getting a new HP laptop. It is, more or less, a commodity. But, in the minds of many people, millions of people, the Mac is like a Bentley. It is a sign that some things are still worth having because they are designed better, work better, and make people feel better than the prosaic Brand X PC alternatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Apple Zealots Start Eating Up Its Stock Again? | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

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