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...stand in line with the millions of others at the withdrawal counters." When this happens Beijing "will have only two choices: to maintain public order at the point of the gun or print money fast." Of course, printing money would drown the Communist Party in the same hyperinflation flood tide in which the Nationalists foundered...
...skills with his seven children and a handful of apprentices. Jeanrichard is a legendary figure, a self-taught watchmaker who invented the first specialized watchmaking machinery. He farmed out part of his production to local peasants, who were only too pleased to have an extra source of income to tide them over the long winter months they spent snowed into their chalets...
...earnings tide isn?t quite at full ebb yet, with a smattering of companies still waiting to tell Wall Street how bad things have been lately and how much better or worse they?re going to get. Among them: some telecom (Verizon), some energy (Williams, PG&E, Aon, Royal Dutch Petroleum), some grub (Tyson, Wendy?s, Del Monte Foods), some health care (Humana, Cardinal Health) and some tech (Scient, Applied Microsystems, Priceline.com). Thursday, the 23rd San Francisco Money Show opens by the Bay, and Logitech International - remember when everybody was doing this? - splits its stock...
...week investors will be again looking with one eye on corporations and the other on the economic tide that's supposed to start lifting them all again, one of these days. Put them in three categories: Housing, labor, and Big News...
...pacific, some are violent; some are coherent and sane, speaking for many of us in an uneasy intuition that something at the heart of global capitalism is amiss - not entirely because of the disparities between rich and poor, (most boats might presumably be lifted by an impartially rising tide), but more because they see the spiritual and environmental damage - the things that the tide permanently destroys, regardless. It wasn't the Indians, after all, who wiped out the buffalo...