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...attitude are the limited ways in which Chinese citizens can put their nest eggs to work. Bank interest rates remain regulated and miserly - offering less than 1% return on a standard savings account - and China has only just begun to open the door to its citizens being able to invest legally abroad. For most savers, that leaves real estate or the stock market - and if an apartment is the equivalent of a bar of gold, the stock market is the equivalent of a casino. Generally speaking, the Chinese love to gamble, but they love their bars of gold more. (Read...
...reality, Deere is following its customers. For decades, smaller U.S. farms have been replaced by industrial, or factory, operations. It's not the storybook farm, but it's more efficient. "The amount of money a dealer has to invest to train its technicians or buy diagnostic tools continues to grow," says Deere CEO Samuel Allen, a company lifer. "So to be a great dealer requires making more money and that's gotten harder for smaller operations." (See pictures of farm land in Nebraska...
...same is true on the worker side of the equation. If the key characteristics of the American economy are flexibility and forward motion, then we would all be better off if people felt more support - both financial and social - to invest in their education, switch jobs and industries and venture out to start new firms...
...Congress wants more and better jobs in the U.S., it should do things like create a permanent tax break for companies that invest in research and development, make it easier for foreigners who get science and engineering Ph.D.s at American universities to stick around after graduation, and spend serious time and money improving the nation's infrastructure, including the electric grid and broadband network. Such initiatives will not create many jobs that can be tallied on a spreadsheet. What they will do is more important: lay the groundwork for businesses to innovate and grow...
...false starts, the city is finally starting to see movement. Major efforts are under way to consolidate neighborhoods (one-third of Detroit's residential parcels are vacant lots or empty homes), close failing schools (one-third of Detroit children attend schools that rank among the state's bottom 5%), invest in new-economy job creation (one-quarter of Detroiters are officially unemployed) and improve its woeful public-transportation system. (See pictures of school kids in Detroit...