News from 12/09/2009
2009; Gale Group;
Autores
Jean, Barrie Berkley, Hyman Gross, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen Researcher, Russell Seitz,
ResumoThe Economist Chevron Ralph Lauren Contents UPMC Omega Louis Vuitton The world this week Politics Business Flybmi Georgia Unnatural selection A golden opportunity Indonesia's future The art of the possible Barack Obama's health-care speech Re-rigging Hamid Karzai Elections in Afghanistan The other exit strategy Fiscal policy Renault Dorchester Collection Verizon business Will Russia and China pitch in? Proliferation from North Korea and Iran Lockerbie questions remain Debating the constitution The generation cap A baseball diamond Economist Learning and earning Daily chart Covidien Other highlights Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus When the rains fail Youtube Angels and demons The ethics of Labour's foreign policy No farewell to arms Military exports Bang to rights The airline bombers The Royal Bank of Scotland The chancellor's eyebrows Politics and the spending squeeze Four Seasons Top-up teaching The growth of home tutoring Unintended consequences Teaching assistants Bahrain Ready for his close-up? Televised election debates An Anglo-Balkan moment Britain and Montenegro Zurich The end of the age of war Siemens IG Index End of an affair? America and eastern Europe Nuclear power? Yes, maybe Germany's energy debate Thailand A delicate judgment French criminal justice Fogh in the Aegean Turkey, Cyprus and NATO Santander Taxing times Spain's growing budget deficit Judge Garzón in the dock Spain's judiciary Skyteam Germany's oddly vapid election Fired up and ready to go The president weighs in on health reform Waiting for the other shoe to drop The cap-and-trade bill The summer of waning love Barack Obama's falling ratings Hard times The trouble with pornography Flogging a dead horse Off-track betting in crisis Still good for a few more years Older workers and the recession Urban rodeo Black cowboys Free speech for me, but not for thee Calderón tries again Mexico's embattled president Politics versus trade Venezuela and Colombia The price of pride Ecuador, Argentina and the IMF Outsourcing terroir Canada's wine industry Qatar Airways The world's next failed state? Strife in Yemen Not as horrible as it was The Palestinians' West Bank All that glisters. . . A metro for the Emirates Robert Mugabe off the hook as usual Africa's diplomacy over Zimbabwe Alternative voices longing to be heard Zimbabwe's still-muzzled press Out of control Guns in Africa The party under siege in Urumqi Tension in Xinjiang Getting it off your chest Vietnam's nationalist bloggers Dangerous driving Kazakhstan's human-rights record Collateral damage of every sort War in Afghanistan Banyan Ichiro Ozawa: the shadow shogun The limits of soft cultural power Unesco and World Heritage Sites A race or a death-wish? UNESCO's leadership Spinning dark new tales Iran, North Korea and the bomb It still pays to study Higher education and the recession CB Richard Ellis The return of the deal Mergers and acquisitions make a comeback Small fish in a big pond China's struggling smaller firms Reforming through the tough times The World Bank's Doing Business report Big Brother bosses Employers spying on staff Dogan v Erdogan The travails of Turkey's Dogan Yayin Face value Iliad's warrior Rearranging the towers of gold Bind games Making fiscal policy credible What next? The G20 meetings Peek. Agh. Boo Buttonwood Too big for its Gucci boots Boom, bust, bonanza Bankruptcy fees Data drilling Speculators and the oil price Push the float out Banco Santander in Brazil Trolls demanding tolls Patents as financial assets Economics focus What if? Flying high Space A tale of two fisheries Tuna and pollock Fade to red Self-erasing paper Beaten but not broken Earthquake-proof bridges A year on Lehman Brothers and the crisis A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. By Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson. Crown Business; 368 pages; $27. Ebury Press; £7.99 This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Princeton University Press; 496 pages; $35 and £19.95 Financial firefighting The Fed and the crisis In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic. By David Wessel. Crown Business; 323 pages; $26.99 An extravagant imagination Charles Dickens Charles Dickens. By Michael Slater. Yale University Press; 720 pages; $35 and £25 How odd, how lovely Seahorses Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality. By Helen Scales. Gotham Books; 272 pages; $20. To be published in Britain by Gotham in November Goodbye to all that British reportage The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009. By Ian Jack. Jonathan Cape; 336 pages; £18.99 An Irish riddle wrapped in a mystery Skellig Michael Sergei Mikhalkov Courses Courses Courses Appointments Courses Announcements Appointments Business & Personal Tenders Fellowships Business & Personal Overview The Economist poll of forecasters, September averages Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Education spending Markets Bank Negara Indonesia Cartier The Economist Ministry of Culture and Tourism Republic of Indonesia Also in this section A golden chance Economist More of the same, please A ringing endorsement from the voters Free to air From dissident outcast to mainstream media Things do not fall apart Because the centre does not hold Tolerance levels Muslims in Indonesia may be becoming more pious, but not necessarily more extreme Surprise, surprise Never mind the risk premium, feel the stability More than a single swallow The rise of Chindonesia Not making it easy Why business in Indonesia has yet to take off A deep-rooted habit The difficulty of battling graft Acacia avenue How to save Indonesia's dwindling rainforests Everybody's friend Indonesia deserves a better image Economist
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