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...Here's the bigger problem: hiding money underneath the mattress risks making the financial system less efficient. And withholding investment from the stock market will depress company valuations. In other words, "if trust has been significantly affected by the crisis," Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, said in a lecture last month, "it will have damaging consequences for investment and growth in the future." (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
Zojirushi's study of Japanese homes, which are tiny, has led to innovation. A $190 minibread-making machine that produces loaves half the size of those made by standard bread machines has become a surprise hit in the U.S. Consumers say it helps avoid the problem of large loaves going stale. "We don't have to be No. 1," says Tatsu Yamasaki, vice president of sales for Zojirushi USA, of the company's occasionally offbeat, high-margin products. "We'd like to be the only...
...Turkey's Place in Europe Re Katinka Barysch's article "Europe's Turkey Problem" [April 13]. Once more, we are told that the E.U. simply has to accept Turkey as a member country. Not doing so, says the article, "would be a mistake of historic proportions." Translation: America wants to accommodate Turkey and at the same time kill off any possibility of Europe making independent decisions. The U.S. thinks it is entitled to tell us which countries we should include, regardless of how alien, oppressive or hostile to genuine secular values they are. Öjevind Laang, LUND, SWEDEN...
...Lieberman only exacerbates an already existing problem, and he cannot be easily dismissed as a marginal case of excess or as an abnormality of the Israeli political system. Among Yisrael Beiteinu’s elected members of the Knesset are a former ambassador to the U.S. and a former senior commander in the police force. Theirs is not simply a right-wing political insurgency, but an outlook deeply rooted in Israeli politics...
...done recently in facing up to its darker history under Nazi occupation, France is showing clear intent to confront rather than deny anti-Semitism - as much of the commentary regarding Halimi's murder indicates. French Jews are not ready to claim that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem, but Prasquier says most now do feel that things are moving in the right direction...