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...Although the financial impact of the fines will mean little to a company that last year earned $37.6 billion, the damage to its reputation may last longer. The Commission's arguments are expected to provide ammunition in a separate Federal Trade Commission investigation into similar anti-competition claims in the U.S., probes by the New York State Attorney General, and a U.S. civil suit filed by AMD in 2005. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Which leaves net exports. The last time the U.S. actually exported more goods and services than it imported was in 1980, and a positive trade balance isn't in the cards anytime soon. But if U.S. consumer spending remains anemic, a rebound overseas could shrink the trade deficit and thus boost the economy. There's just no concrete evidence of that happening yet - the March trade figures, released on Tuesday, showed exports declining faster than imports for the month. Over the somewhat longer term, the big question is whether the global economy can be rebalanced in a way so that...
...difference is that we'd be telling people not just about a particular credit card's characteristics but about what those characteristics mean in terms of human behavior. It would be similar to Federal Trade Commission rules that require auto manufacturers to say how many miles per gallon cars get whether a person is driving in the city or in the country. Depending on a person's behavior, the cost changes - and that is made clear right on the sticker. (See pictures of stores that are no more...
...period, even with its generous assumptions, soy biodiesel and corn-ethanol plants powered by coal or natural gas actually produced more emissions than gasoline; corn ethanol only passed the stress test (and just barely) when powered by the cleanest possible power. And that analysis assumed it's a good trade-off to accept massive emissions today in exchange for reductions over 30 years, when in fact massive emissions today could help trigger devastating ice melts and other feedback loops that could make reductions over 30 years practically irrelevant...
...gathered May 7-8 in Prague that extended families on both sides of the match had already seriously meddled with what had been a pretty simple proposal. An outgrowth of the E.U.'s long-standing European Neighborhood Program (ENP), the Eastern Partnership (EaP) plan called for establishing preferential development, trade, and travel agreements with the six former Soviet republics in exchange for them taking steps to create solid and responsible free market economies and democratic political systems. In that way, the multi-lateral EaP sought to strike up and reinforce ties with the E.U.'s outlying neighbors even faster than...