News from 18/07/2009
2009; Gale Group;
Autores
Vladimir Meerovich, Dr Arturo Bonnin, Heinz Kestermann, Gail Lightfoot, Jimmy Gardner, Dr Matthew Wood, Robert Walls, Neel Blair, Seymour Becker, Yury Fedotov, John Toohey, Ged Parker, Ken Moyle,
ResumoThe Economist Omega Contents Hp Louis Vuitton The world this week Politics Business Bahrain Mercedes-Benz What went wrong with economics Time's up for the LDP A general election called in Japan Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hold your nerve The war in Afghanistan Korean Air Divine intervention Mark-to-market accounting Stacking the deck Online gambling in Europe Going gently Assisted suicide Curing the patient Russia and the world The chosen few Barracking Obama The Economist Deutsche Bank Fighting for survival China's Uighurs Other highlights Online Contents Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus And the soldier home from the hill IG Index No way to start out in life Rising youth unemployment The axeman cometh Private schools as charities Show us the money Energy and climate change Thomson Reuters Don't panic The spread of swine flu International Business Machines Making a killing Organised crime Nothing to write home about Care for the elderly The decline of the English divorce Social trends Shell Tory splits! He who pays for the pipelines calls the tune Energy in Europe Joschka Fischer v Gerhard Schröder German politicians and pipelines Fund management Turkey's fragile economy In heaven or hell Silvio Berlusconi's success A mountain of troubles Russia's north Caucasus Standard Bank Playing the parliamentary game Empathy v law The Supreme Court Unwelcome attention Oversight of the Federal Reserve Soak the rich Congress's new health-care plan Looking back in anger Investigating torture A chance for charters Education reform in Massachusetts Raising Alabama Online education Separated brothers Latinos and religion Glad to be godless The permanent campaign Bolivia's divisive president Playing for time Peru's reshuffled government Lending a hand Mexico and the disabled How different is his policy? Barack Obama and Africa Oil makes friends of us all Equatorial Guinea's durable president Change in the air? An election in Iraqi Kurdistan The law changes. Will attitudes? Honour killings in Syria Out of his shell Iran's Mir Hosein Mousavi Mixed feelings The Arabs' view of Iran A fine balancing act China's recovery Troubles across Turkestan The Uighurs, Central Asia and Turkey Anwar holds the PAS Malaysia's opposition Sharm offensive India and Pakistan Retraining Tiger cubs Child soldiers in Sri Lanka Jolo man Muslim insurgency in the Philippines The Economist UK Commission for Employment and Skills Banyan End of the line for the LDP Not a barren country The rights of Arctic peoples Taking a scalpel to costs America's hospital industry All together now Drugs companies and poor countries The steel fist of government China and the Rio Tinto detentions Kanpai! Kirin and Suntory discuss a merger A stacked deck Online gambling in Europe Nurturing the youngsters Spain tries to encourage start-ups Face value Turning up the gas The other-worldly philosophers Efficiency and beyond Financial economics Keeping up with the Goldmans Is Wall Street back to normal? Going overboard Banks and bonuses Silent disaster Private placements in Asia Buttonwood Dropping a brick Cheesed off The Big Mac index Marks and sparks Reforming finance: Accounting standards Chicago Booth Economics focus A partial marvel Over the moon? Human spaceflight Craig's twist Biofuels from algae Ethereal yet weighty The search for dark matter Devoured by his own creation Danton and the French revolution Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror. By David Lawday. Jonathan Cape; 294 pages; £20. To be published in America by Grove Atlantic at the end of 2010 Nice but tricky The economics of Free Free: The Future of a Radical Price. By Chris Anderson. Hyperion; 288 pages; $26.99. Random House; £18.99 An easy birth Betting online You Bet: The Betfair Story—How Two Men Changed the World of Gambling. By Colin Cameron. HarperCollins; 320 pages; $24.95 and £15.99 A good read The world's earliest Bible Glory days The rate to the moon Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon. By Buzz Aldrin. Harmony; 366 pages; $27. Bloomsbury; £16.99 Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon. By Craig Nelson. Viking Adult; 416 pages; $27.95. John Murray; £18.99 Big Daddy and his awkward sons-in-law Wolfson museums of decorative art John Bachar Courses Appointments Appointments Appointments Appointments Tenders Tenders Tenders Business & Personal Tenders Overview Brazil Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Foreign-exchange reserves Markets The Economist Cartier
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