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...recent weeks, as Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his administration have pressed the central bank to take steps to contain deflation, prevent another downturn in the economy, and to tame the runaway yen, now at 86 yen to the dollar compared to 93 a year ago. On Nov. 27, the dollar fell to a 14-year low against the yen, triggering concerns that the currency could start to unravel progress that stimulus spending has made on the economy this year, in part by wreaking havoc on export competitiveness. (See the top 10 colorful spouses, including Miyuki Hatoyama...
...Shirakawa has previously said that it was not the lack of liquidity in Japan's economy, but the lack of demand that is behind the economic situation. On Nov. 20, the day that Hatoyama acknowledged deflation, Shirakawa said, "We need to work on the core reason for [deflation]: weak final demand as seen in capital investment and private consumption." Economists estimate Japan's demand shortage at around $400 billion a year. (Read: "Japan's Latest Economic Ailment: Deflation...
This Thanksgiving weekend, an entirely different meal dominated holiday conversation across the nation. President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, held on Nov. 24, proved eventful not because of its guest list of notable dignitaries and celebrities, but due to the presence of uninvited attendees Michaele and Tareq Salahi. These “gatecrashers” managed to infiltrate the private event allegedly in hopes of securing a place in reality television. Their actions reveal our culture’s peculiar and unfortunate fixation with celebrity status and Americans’ desire to achieve it by whatever means...
...easy to believe that your privacy trumps everyone else's. And whether he means to or not, Woods is projecting that decidedly exclusive mind-set as he insists on stonewalling Florida law-enforcement investigators looking into the circumstances of his bizarre, 2:30 a.m. car crash on Nov. 27, when his Cadillac SUV struck a fire hydrant in front of his $2.4 million Isleworth mansion and then plowed into a neighbor's tree. The crash left Woods temporarily unconscious - and seems to have rendered his p.r. apparatus addled as well. His less-than-forthcoming statements to both police...
...Since Nov. 27, Woods has issued a statement accepting blame for the accident while at the same time slamming the "malicious rumors" published recently in the National Enquirer and on numerous gossip websites alleging an affair with a New York socialite (who herself has since denied the rumors.) But given Woods' mega-fame, and the worshipful esteem in which fans hold him and his impeccable image, silence is rarely if ever a wise option in a media frenzy like the one surrounding his midnight misfortune. He risks looking as if he's hiding something - and, just as bad, he appears...