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...purchaser of American Treasuries, China, has already voiced concern about the profligacy of spending that is part of the plan to pull the U.S. out of a deep recession. If China cuts back its purchases of Treasuries, even a bit, interest rates on paper issued in the future could move up substantially...
...agencies investing the money have only a vague set of forecasts for returns and, under pain of death, could not supply a detailed accounting of predictions for how government investments will pay out. The process of stimulating the economy may, indeed, have no specific goals other than to move GDP back to the positive growth rate in the budget and stimulus bills and the recovery in employment that is laid out by the Office of Management and Budget. That would mean that the approach to salvaging the economy is freewheeling and subject to only the nonspecific measurements of success...
...Singapore Ship Suppliers Association, most of them are doing well in spite of the downturn in trade. One reason, he says, is because Singapore is so strategically located along maritime trade routes that it's an ideal place to ride out the recession. "If the ships are going to move anywhere they'll move from here," Inch says. (Read "Laid Off in Singapore...
...Below Ng's office is a gymnasium-sized warehouse where he stores the various goods he sells to mariners. Forklifts busily move boxes of soda pop, aspirin, coffee, cooking oil, flour and instant noodles onto waiting trucks, which will take the goods to a security controlled pier. Heightened security around Singapore's port since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks may have made a chandler's daily routine more regimented and less fun. "In the old days everybody used to knock on the side of the ship and have a beer," Inch recalls. "That's long over." And, as with nearly...
Like many South American nations with painful histories of abusive autocrats and military dictators, Colombia had long tried to limit presidential power. The 1991 constitution banned re-election. Uribe was allowed to run in 2006 only after lawmakers amended the constitution in a controversial move that led to accusations of vote-buying. Now, with Uribe's blessing, pro-government legislators are trying to change the rules yet again. (See pictures of guerrillas battling Uribe's government...