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...bonds have long been a no-brainer investment. But not any more. A growing number of analysts and financial planners are raising doubts about the bonds of local and state governments. They worry that a weakened economy, along with rising cost of benefits for city workers, will make it tougher for local governments to meet their obligations...
...strength-from-weakness strategy could hurt Beijing. Time abroad could distract China's leaders from their pressing domestic problems - for all its sophistication, the Chinese Communist Party has failed to develop any effective local troubleshooters other than Wen. For years, moreover, Chinese nationalists have been calling for exactly a tougher line toward the West. Now, Beijing's new aggressiveness overseas could embolden the nationalists - a trend that would alienate China's neighbors...
Lawyers - particularly those based in New York City and Wilmington - say the process helps shepherd complicated cases into the hands of experienced judges. Yet some legal experts argue that venue-shopping is a way for companies to run from local suppliers, creditors and employees, making it tougher for those groups to file claims and otherwise participate in the case. "The autoworkers live around Detroit," says Lynn LoPucki, a law professor at UCLA. "You go to New York, and suddenly all of those workers can't sit in the courtroom." (Read "Can Detroit Be Retooled - Before It's Too Late...
There's just one problem: illegal immigrants aren't going, at least not yet. Their ties to their home countries have grown too tenuous; their investment in their off-label version of the American Dream is too great. Tougher border enforcement makes leaving a more final and difficult decision. They don't go home because they know they probably won't get to return. This has Americans in St. Helens, Ore., and elsewhere facing a set of decisions of their own: How hard should they press the case against illegal immigrants? And will putting more pressure on the undocumented...
...argument: Pressuring illegal immigrants will make them go away, thereby saving jobs for Americans. The enthusiasm for the prospect of a great outmigration is such that pundits and politicians began lining up early to take credit for it. Last summer the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which favors tougher enforcement of immigration laws, released a report with the somewhat triumphal title "Homeward Bound." Its authors argued that census data showed that approximately 1.3 million illegal immigrants had left the U.S. from August 2007 to May 2008. At that rate, their number would be halved in five years. Because...