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Both parties are more interested in implementing their own version of the same stagnant status quo than in innovating new solutions for the tenacious problems that persist...
...Ireland and Spain has marginalized the men of war. Eventually they simply become a nuisance factor. But the economic context in the Balkans and the Middle East, for example, is quite different. Macedonia's fragile peace has plenty of potentially fatal flaws that could cause its collapse, and the stagnant economy hardly provides a reassuring foundation for the brave new state envisaged in the political agreement. And while economics has little direct impact on the fact that Israel and the Palestinians are moving daily further away from a return to the peace process, the near-total collapse of the Palestinian...
...notion that bad economic news means the Fed is more likely to cut interest rates, cheering stocks and bonds alike with the prospect of cheaper money and stimulated corporate investment. And bad news there was - the Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in a July of stagnant stock prices and rising layoffs, and the National Association of Purchasing Managers said that manufacturing, in a coma for many months now, was still getting worse...
Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University professor and director of the Harvard’s Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, cut off negotiations last week with the Thai government on a proposed study of the country’s stagnant economy. Porter cited misinformation and partisan bickering as a barrier to the study...
...Pryor says SAC has become too "vertical" and stagnant, attracting only political junkies with little diversity...