Political Potluck 64: Issuing a Challenge to Michael Moore
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Thailand's IRPC invests Bt8 billion on electricity generation
BANGKOK, 11 October 2009 (NNT) – IRPC (Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Complex Public Co., Ltd.) signs a joint agreement with GE Energy, and General Carbon for an investment on steam- generated electricity worth 8 billion baht to replace the old furnace plant. IRPC Executive Director Mr. Paili ...
Black Gold
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Lame Cherry Economic Doctrine #17
With Goldman Sachs noting that a unified North Korea with South Korea would surpass the economic growth and markets of Japan, German and France, which is in line with this blogs advocacy of harnessing in the first steps a utilization of North Korean workers and military leadership with South Korean ...
Smokescreen
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Should Emissions be Allocated Per Capita?
"Should Greenhouse Gas Permits be Allocated on a Per Capita Basis?" is an article by Eric Posner and Cass Sunstein appearing this year in the California Law Review. That is, should emissions cap per nation be assigned on the basis of the nation's population? Posner and Sunstein argue in the negative ...
The $64,000 Question
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Organ Black Market Has Global Reach
The black market for the trade of organs has a global reach, however, only one country (Iran) legally allows its citizens to sell organs for a profit. Yet, the poor worldwide are selling their organs in order to make money and support their families. India, Egypt, Moldova and Brazil are among the wo ...
Böse Vorausahnungen: Total-Crash bereits um den 25. Oktober?
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The Story Behind The Cutting by James Hayman
Like so many thrillers, the idea for the plot of The Cutting came from something I found in the news. I read an article about so-called “organ tourism.” Americans traveling to foreign countries for transplants they couldn’t qualify for here at home. As most of us know, there’s of a chronic shortage ...
Q&a: Oscar Sañez, Ceo, Business Processing Association of the Philippines
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Soros Throws $1B into Cleantech
Soros Throws $1B into Cleantech · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives. He also is creating a new organization to influence policy makers on the environment, reports Bloomberg. Soros is the founder of Soros Fund ...
PNB eyeing acquisition of Bank in Kazakhstan
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RBI Governor Subbarao Speaks on Emerging Market Exit from Stimulus
RBI Governor Subbarao speak with a lot of unanswered questions, in Istanbul. (" Emerging Market Concerns: An Indian Perspective") From the perspective of Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and particularly for that of India, I will highlight five concerns. These are: first, timing of exit from the acc ...
Globalization - Business Leaders Panel
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Cashew, the nutty nut
In the 16thc CE when the Portuguese found the tree with twisted and bent trunks and branches and a strange kind of fruit in Brazil, they called it caju. That became ‘cashew’ in English and cashew became one of the most favourite edible nuts in the world. The official name of the tree which grows to ...
Trade Turnaround: can it last?
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The clouds part but underlying problems remain
Irwin Stelzer: American Account The letter W is back on some agendas, and sending tremors through the business community — especially as it seems to be displacing V in the discourse of economy-watchers. Recall, the alphabet has been put to the service of economists. A V recovery is one in which a sh ...
Arrived !
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Time right to enter India: US to its cos
WASHINGTON: Enamoured by India’s status as one of the world’s fastest growing economies, the US is telling its companies that the time is right for them to enter the Asian nation and high rate of return on investments is the most compelling reason. “Now is the time for US companies to enter the risi ...
Bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams – Bhaghat Singh
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