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...your article you referred to "the billions of dollars spent on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan." Since you seem to have some hard information, perhaps you could enlighten us as to what this has achieved in the way of improvements to the lives of ordinary Afghans. Or is it merely rebuilding the damaged infrastructure caused by bombing sorties carried out by the U.S. military? Jonathan Wright, LONDON...
...need for banks to hold more capital and for their appetite for risk to be curtailed. But bigger issues are at stake too, ones that are more political and philosophical in nature: Should any bank be too big to fail? What should be done with financial activities that seem purely speculative and of questionable social use? How can the short-term, get-rich-quick mentality that drove so much market activity before the crash - and inflated those bonuses - be curbed? Is there a place for morality in the world of finance? (See the financial crisis after one year...
...dwellers - and its most vulnerable cities. Asia is not alone, however. From Mombasa to Miami, climate change imperils 3,351 cities lying in low-elevation coastal zones, says UN-HABITAT, the U.N. agency for human settlements. Places that once thrived because of their proximity to rivers and oceans now seem cursed by it. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...contrast with the 1930s is stark. Ironic, too. By leaving financial markets alone, Mellon and his kindred spirits at the Fed ushered in an economic collapse that led to permanent government intervention in the financial sector. By intervening, Paulson and his kindred spirits at the Fed seem to have headed off a re-enactment of the New Deal...
...Loans are going mainly to politically connected state-owned enterprises, which now comprise just 40% of the economy and create only a quarter of jobs. It's an entrenched situation that dates back to the days of economic central planning, and something that China's communist rulers do not seem to have the political gumption - or indeed the desire - to change. (Watch a video about China?s knockoff electric carmakers...