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...currency reserves at the end of 2008, down from 67% three years earlier. There remains great incentive for countries with large dollar reserves, like China and Japan, to continue to invest in dollar assets to preserve the value of their holdings. Besides, replacing the dollar would demand a level of cooperation among the world's major economic powers that is difficult to achieve. Although China and Russia reiterated their calls for reform of the global currency system at last week's G-20 summit in London, the issue barely got any talk time. (See pictures of London protesting...
...joblessness level reached 8.5% at in March because the number of people pushed out of work last month rose 663,000. Each time another 1.7 million people lose their jobs, the unemployment rate moves up another 1%, so if 2.6 million more Americans are fired, the jobless rate will hit 10%. At the current rate at which the economy is shedding workers the 10% level will be reached by the end of July. The counterargument to picking a date only four months from now is that the rate at which people are losing jobs will decelerate. Of course, there...
...Massachusetts' suit, Galvin alleges Fairfield had "complete disregard of its fiduciary duties to its investors" and made "flagrant and recurring misrepresentations to its investors to the level of fraud." A Fairfield spokesperson said the complaint was false and misleading...
Medical science has deciphered many of the body's workings, down to the level of the gene, and isn't too far from using stem cells to repair its hobbled organs. But in many ways, the human body remains a vast and peculiar mystery...
...roundtable discussion and proceeded with five panel discussions and a variety of informal Saturday lunchtime discussions. Sold out within weeks of its announcement, the conference attracted guests from around the world, and enthusiasm was high, according to Mostafavi. “After five days, I could still feel that level of enthusiasm and energy, could feel the energy day after day,” he said. An Ecological Urbanism exhibit, on display until April 17, provides an interactive way to approaching these topics. The GSD also plans to release a book in late October that discusses topics under ecological urbanism...