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...General Motors, recovery always seems to be a case of two steps forward and one step back. The same day it reported an impressive 32% increase in sales during February, the automaker also announced it was recalling some 1.3 million compact cars built between 2005 and 2010, and suspending sales of 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt so it can fix a power steering assist...
...that about 80% of the worldwide bluefin tuna catch is eventually eaten in Japan - with the main fishing nations being Italy, France and Spain - a global trade ban should significantly reduce pressure on the fish population, which is now at less than 15% of its estimated historical high. "This step will help fix a management system that is broken," says Mark Stevens, senior program officer for fisheries at the World Wildlife Fund. "First of all, we have to stop the overfishing pressure...
...only thing that could prevent the tuna population from collapsing altogether. It would also represent a rare occasion when the international community proved willing to sacrifice today to protect the future. "Nothing in the fishing world like this has ever happened before," says Stevens. "It's a huge step forward...
...such, the question to ask is not whether Greece ought to receive economic support, but rather from where it should be coming. Interpreting EU treaties in such a way that allows rich member-countries to bail out poorer ones is a step toward integrated eurozone fiscal policy as it necessitates the coercion of the poorer countries’ fiscal policymakers. Although austere German inflation-hawks might disagree, any interventionist French politician-turned-economist would gladly proclaim that fiscal policy is inherently, and rightly, subject to political forces. Indeed, in that country, unlike in Germany and the U.S., elected politicians dictate...
...precisely because such marked differences in sentiment would have to be overcome that even bailing out Greece (or any other eurozone member) with eurozone money would be more than just the small step toward centralized fiscal policy that it may appear to be. It would also be a very large step toward political union—a goal that the EU must not reach too far for until it attains the approval to do so from the popular ballot on which its authority rests...