News from 28/02/2009
2009; Gale Group;
Autores
Joe Rosen, Peter Townshend, Andy Dolan, William Clay, Michael Brautigam, Martin Redrado Governor, John Moukad, William Burke,
ResumoThe Economist Dorchester Collection UBS Contents Omega Louis Vuitton The world this week Politics Business Thomson Reuters Marriott Hotels & Resorts The bill that could break up Europe In knots over nationalisation The White House and America's banks To forecast or not to forecast? Investor relations Another year of the Iron Fist China and Tibet Volkswagen A load of rubbish The waste industry Flybmi Accenture Cfainstitute An alternative history lesson Argentina's monetary policy Wrong on a rights offering Home truths Balancing taxes The Economist CFA Institute Excess liquidity Water Invest in France Agency Other highlights Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus The whiff of contagion Green shoots A glimpse of optimism Lexus Hiscox How the government lost the plot Britain and its Muslims For their eyes only Freedom of information When will we see your like again? Bank rescues Blame the messenger Royal Mail Yes to heroin, insulin no Needle disposal Uplift from downturn Depression architecture The price of freedom Bahrain Carbon Trust Europe's reluctant paymaster Germany Allons, enfants! Protests in France In a stew Protests in Ireland How many more? A spy scandal in Estonia Time for a change? Albanian politics Europe's family squabbles National express International Business Machines Brave rhetoric, grim reality The government's finances A constitutional conundrum Voting rights for Washington, DC Erasing race Affirmative action Gilded age Age and Californian cities Only in America Judicial independence The lowest of the low Bad judges Digging their way out of recession Victory gardens Take heart Post-traumatic stress disorder Californication Preventing pillage in the rainforest The Brazilian Amazon Fighting old battles Quebec Spies in trouble Colombia An $8 billion scandal goes a long way The Stanford affair Just a glimmer of hope Somalia's civil war Little-known, dispersed and dying Somali's demography Bishop's move South Africa Trouble at home Senegal Grumbling and rumbling Shias in the Gulf The right has the first shot Israel's would-be government Not much of a celebration China and Tibet Politically incorrect tourism China and the Dalai Lama Feeling the heat The yakuza Blessing or curse? Cambodia's oil resources No hiding place Bangladesh's economy Stoking the flames Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka Mutiny in Bangladesh Just like the bad old days Pakistan's politics United in defiance Proliferation Guilty as charged The World Bank Managing in the fog Corporate planning An uncertain future Prediction markets Power games European energy The hesitant auctioneer Telecoms in India Out on its own Software in the recession Home alone News Corporation Seeking success Google in Asia Face value A teacher for the times A ghoulish prospect Trend Micro Stress-test mess Bank capital Called to account UBS The outstretched palm Dubai's bail-out Haring away Gold Atlas felt a sense of déjà vu Ayn Rand Crash course Lessons from the telecoms bubble (1) Adulation Lessons from the telecoms bubble (2) Economics focus Domino theory Allianz The kindness of crowds Public order Primates on Facebook Social networks OCOck up Greenhouse gases A footprint in the sands of time Sunny side up Psychology The Folio Society How to ruin a country Corruption in Kenya It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower. By Michela Wrong. Fourth Estate; 400 pages; £12.99. To be published in America by Harper in June A friendship that frightened America's cold warriors Reagan and Gorbachev The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War. By James Mann. Viking; 396 pages; $27.95. To be published in Britain by Penguin in July All beak and claws Flannery O'Connor Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor. By Brad Gooch. Little, Brown; 448 pages; $30. To be published in Britain by Little, Brown in April Waterway triumphs State enterprise Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire. By Gerard Koeppel. Da Capo Press; 480 pages; $27.95 and £16.99 The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal. By Julie Greene. Penguin Press; 475 pages; $30 Always with us? Inequality The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. By Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Allen Lane; 297 pages; £20 Seduced by a flute Krishna on show Christopher Nolan Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Appointments Appointments Conferences Tenders Business & Personal Overview Metals Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Junk bonds Markets Uniquely Singapore Zurich The Economist IMD Harvard Also in this section Economist Talking rubbish You are what you throw away The anthropology of garbage Down in the dumps Managing waste properly is expensive, which is why rich countries mostly do it better than poor ones A better hole The charms of modern landfills The appliance of science Trash goes high-tech Round and round it goes Recycling is good for the environment, but it costs. Is it worth it? Muck and brass The waste business smells of money Less is more The ultimate in waste disposal is to tackle the problem at source Economist
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