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...fact, Cape Verde migrants elect their own representatives to the National Assembly. Cape Verde has become a state beyond borders, and this is all the better for Cape Verdeans. If we start to increase human mobility rather than impede it, fighting poverty will become more than a zero-sum game. Our economic output would increase tremendously. A major reason global productivity has increased over the last twenty-five years is because of removing immigration barriers and expanding the workforce within states, especially China, India, and the European Union. It’s time to make this happen on a worldwide...
...China announced a big stimulus package nearly two weeks ago, and in Beijing last weekend, government policymakers acknowledged that more is probably coming. In the U.S., another economic-stimulus plan seems inevitable; the Federal Reserve, meanwhile, is probably headed toward what in 1990s Japan became known as the ZIRP: zero-interest-rate policy. The Fed funds rate is already down to 1%, and the economy is still sinking. Rates have nowhere to go but down - all the way to zero. And by the time President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, it's likely the U.S. will be debating...
...author humanizes Kaminski by depicting the character’s creative struggle as akin to a pursuit of identity: “First there were the botched drawings of a twelve-year-old: humans with wings, birds with human heads, snakes, and swords swooping through the air: absolutely zero evidence of talent.” But then an incident in salt mines, where lost, he “wandered for hours through the empty passageways,” leads to Kaminski finding his aesthetic style and presumably himself. “After he’d been located and brought...
What's really held back residential wind power has been the lack of federal subsidies, which have fed the growth of other renewables like solar and large-scale wind. "We've had zero federal assistance," says Ron Stimmel, AWEA's small-wind expert...
What are you doing to make electric cars a reality? You are going to have a collaboration between cities, government and car manufacturers toward making it easy for the consumer to go for zero emission cars. We have been very surprised by the very positive collaboration we have seen from many governments - we've signed Portugal, Denmark, Israel, France. We're working with the Chinese. The overwhelming response from public officials is amazing. When zero emission cars are on the market, all the others are going to look really obsolete...