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...film finance market had worked itself into a froth, and banks far and wide were looking to get in on it. "There was an influx of so much capital, it caused deals to get priced in ways that didn't make sense," says Kavanaugh...
...Shanghai is determined to revitalize the Expo. While Beijing threw an efficient if, ultimately, rather empty Olympics - because of visa restrictions that kept out many tourists, along with potential demonstrators - you can bet that Shanghai will give a warmer welcome to the world. After all, it was the influx of foreigners during the 19th century that turned a Chinese fishing town into the international hub of hedonism. And that's a status Shanghai isn't going to surrender to its dowdier national capital without a fight...
...immigration to be beneficial. The same poll found that a slight majority of Americans saw immigrants as an economic threat. Despite public imagination on the subject, immigration is far from an economic threat. In fact, immigrants are tremendously beneficial to the American economy in several ways. For one, the influx of immigrants allows America’s population to grow faster than that of other industrialized nations. This growth ensures a large supply of workers to keep Social Security solvent and the economy growing. Without immigrants, the United States would be in the same position as Japan, Italy, and Russia...
...result of investment from the very institutions that decimated its traditional economy. The European Union's Common Fisheries Policy ran Arbroath's fishermen out of business; and E.U. agricultural policy for years made it impossible for local farms to compete. But local agriculture has recovered by accepting an influx of cheap labor from Poland and other new European states. Arbroath's harbor has been regenerated by $2 million in E.U. grants that have turned its once-forbidding granite docks into a recreational marina with berths for 58 yachts - and a waiting list for more. Even the final surviving vestige...
...zloty, versus 4 today. In Poland, wages rose 7.7% last year, double their growth rate in the U.K.; and Poland's unemployment rate has dropped from about 14% to under 10% in two years. Newly arrived Poles, eager for jobs, were willing to work for low wages. The influx of Poles triggered tabloid scare stories about Polish laborers stealing jobs and soaking up social services. Now their departure has stirred doleful speculation about labor shortages: GET YOUR TAPS FIXED WHILE YOU CAN, warned a headline in the Times of London...