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Jul 15, 2011

SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 15, 2011


NSF funds MSU summer undergraduate research
Mississippi State Newsroom
The ultimate goal of the summer training is to increase the number of students pursuing graduate studies in the so-called STEM areas--science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Historically, fewer students study these areas in college compared ...
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Mississippi State Newsroom
Illumina Selected as a Preferred Service Provider for Cancer Research UK
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Fiona Hemsley, head of strategic projects at Cancer Research UK, said: "We're now entering a 'golden era' for cancer research and the ICGC projects we've announced today epitomize this new wave of genetics studies. The technology from Illumina will ...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Chandigarh Tribune
Studies have found that bone cells called osteoblasts bond to titanium coated with nanotubes better than to regular titanium and there will be lesser chances of ball and socket of a surgically implanted artificial hip joint to get loose. ...
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Chandigarh Tribune
Fairfax Students Make VTech Dean's List
Patch.com
Ivan F. Bustamante, Byrd Drive, senior majoring in architecture in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Alexandra H. Deburr, Warwick Avenue, sophomore majoring in biological sciences in the College of Science. Carleigh R. Fagre, Ashton Oaks ...
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The Web Is Your New Memory
IEEE Spectrum
A study published in today's Science suggests that the Internet has changed how we remember facts. The study shows that the Web has become a sort of external hard drive for factual information. So instead of remembering specific details, ...
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Philadelphia Model for Museum/Library Collaborations Grows by Leaps and Bounds
PR Newswire (press release)
Disseminate effective resources and strategies for connecting science and literacy to expansion sites nationwide. The Franklin Institute has a well-regarded portfolio of educational programs andresearch studies. A key element of the LEAP into Science ...
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Biologists Report Hijacking E. Coli's Genetic Code
New York Times
“It is a major technical breakthrough which has great promise for scientific breakthroughs to follow,” said Dr. Gerald J. Joyce, a biologist who studies the origin of life at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. “This is really macho molecular ...
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Making Science Girl Friendly Pays Gender Dividends
Miller-McCune.com
While women now constitute a sizable majority of US college students — they received more than 57 percent of bachelor's degrees in 2008 — females earned fewer than 35 percent of degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics awarded that ...
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Miller-McCune.com
Research matters: 'Students should think hard about key skills before ...
The Independent
People with hard-edged science and maths qualifications are particularly sought after. But those with skills such as translating research into plain language are also much in demand. Such skills are needed to allow the UK to apply its new ideas and ...
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Nancy Cook-Monroe: Science fans take over Witte
San Antonio Express
"We are very proud of TPR's ongoing focus on the environment and of San Antonio's accomplishments in science and technology," said Janet Grojean, TPR's director of corporate and community outreach. "Thus we were pleased that they chose to shine a ...
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University of York degree results - Day 2
The Press, York
Master of Science (by research) in Computer Science: Touqeer Ahmad, Nitya Subramaniam. Master of Science in Information Technology: Teniade Agbeke Orimalade. Master of Science in Safety Critical Systems Engineering: Colin John Barnett, Gareth Christian ...
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Clara woman part of shuttle flight history
Offaly Express
Watching the historic launch of the final flight of the 30 year space shuttle programme live at Limerick Institue of Technology was Michelle McKeon-Bennett Head Dept. Applied Science LIT. LIT post-graduate student Gerard Newsham's research project was ...
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Offaly Express
Freeman Powder Rheometer Crucial to Development of Pharmaceutical Drug Products
Azom.com
The RCPE is a unique internationally operating European research institute in the area of pharmaceutical process and product development, and a focal point for rational andscience-based development of novel pharmaceutical drug products, ...
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Azom.com
Bachelor's Degrees 07/14/11
Leader-Telegram
River Falls: Andrew Braun, construction; Lauren Davison, human development and family studies; Andre Drinkwine, information and communications technology; Brian Giebel, business administration; Ryan Gilbertson, applied science; Margo Hanson, ...
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Robots: Utopian or dystopian?
Irish Times
“Many of the technologies designed to assist humanity are just that: assisting. People don't want to feel controlled. We do user studies on these kinds of issues all the time.” Current robotics research has delivered many positive outputs, ...
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Irish Times
[Viewpoint] BRICs may soon outpace Korea
JoongAng Daily
They were proud that they were studying engineering and that technology studies were the most popular back home because they can lead to a brighter future for individuals and their countries. Jon Perera, Microsoft's general manager of academic programs ...
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For-Profit Owners Sell Lots of Stock
Inside Higher Ed
WASHINGTON -- The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a subcommittee's bill that would increase spending on the National Science Foundation's research by $43 million with funds reallocated from the agency's education and equipment ...
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A Man and a Blog to Watch
Pajamas Media
If you're an astrophysicist, you might be in Houston (or, you might have been at NASA), or at a university with an astrophysics program, or you might be doing astrophysical research. Thisscience is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics ...
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In the smallest places
Industrial Fuels and Power
The BURD panel held in London was chaired by Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram, Principal ScienceAdvisor to the Government of India. Over GBP7m from Research Councils UK, with additional resources from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in India, ...
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SDSC's Trestles Provides Rapid Turnaround and Enhanced Performance for Diverse ...
HPCwire (blog)
Sperhake plans to publish a detailed review of his numerical studies in those three areas. His most recent research was published in the May 20, 2011 issue of Physical Review D. “Numerical simulations of black-hole binary space times in the framework ...
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HPCwire (blog)
Study uses new stem cell therapy in patients up to 19 days after stroke
HealthCanal.com
The therapy, called ALD-401, consists of stem cells that are identified using Aldagen's proprietarytechnology to isolate cells that express high levels of an enzyme that serve as a marker of stem cells. Studies found that these cells enhance recovery ...
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Career Calling: M Sc in Sericulture and Seribiotechnology
Times of India
G Subramanya, chairman, department of studies sericulture and science, UOM said the researchactivities in India, China and Japan have opened up new avenues to make silkworm a molecular model organism. The silkworm is considered a good bioreactor for ...
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Campus France: Preparing Saudis for an educational journey
Arab News
... in manufacturing, technology, science (space, transportation, medicine, mathematics) and the number of Nobel Prizes and medals that French citizens bring home, demonstrate that France is one of the most dynamic centers of innovation andresearch. ...
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Arab News
Honorable mentions
Foster's Daily Democrat
Sheppard majored in science, technology, and society and anthropology and graduated with the following honors: dean's list, distinction in both majors. She is a graduate of Robert W. Traip Academy. Nicholas R. Tucker of North Berwick, Maine, ...
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Auto industry's claimed fuel economy costs can't be trusted or verified
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
How many studies line-up with the Auto Alliance's exaggerated cost claims, based on analysis by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR)? None. Now, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released a new report stating that “internal combustion engines are ...
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Administration Grossly Underestimated Carbon Cost, Says Study
New York Times
The studies are the most recent fodder in the search to estimate the unknown and to put a price on possibility. In 2009, an interagency working group made up of several federal agencies was created to quantify the cost of putting greenhouse gases into ...
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BerGenBio Appoints Former CRCT CEO Foden to Board as BGB324 Lead Oncology ...
TMC Net
Foden was one of the founders of Cancer Research UK and also served as CEO of both CancerResearch Campaign Technology Ltd and Cancer Research Ventures Ltd. She was also an investment director at Merlin Biosciences, advisor on several EU projects and ...
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HeartMath® announces Revitalize You! (TM) - an evidence-based e-learning ...
Benzinga
HeartMath research studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function and cognitive performance and the clinical outcomes of the HeartMath approach have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as American ...
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Experiments on animals rise again
The Independent
Animal experiments have been increasing for more than 15 years due to the rise in GM technologywhere laboratory mice can be engineered. There has also been a significant increase in the use of tropical zebra fish for embryonic studies and new world ...
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Edward J. Burns Jr.
NorthJersey.com
... order of Phi Delta Theta, he attended Syracuse University and graduated, high honors, with a Bachelor of Science degree from Fordham University before pursuing post graduate studies in Business Administration at Stevens Institute of Technology. ...
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Polaris Venture Partners Announces First Investments From Its Sixth Fund
Marketwire (press release)
The company is pursuing a novel approach to improving existing drug therapy through technologythat has the potential to dramatically improve the translation of cancer drugs from animal models to human studies. The company's scientific founders include ...
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Regulus Therapeutics Appoints Gregory Hannon, Ph.D. to Scientific Advisory Board
PR Newswire (press release)
David Bartel, Ph.D., professor of biology at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Researchas well as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bartel studies ...
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Incumbent runs for Chancellor seat
Fredericksburg.com (blog)
Right now, I am working with businesses to create an Innovation Park in Spotsylvania County that can bring together research and technologies that will plant the seeds of innovation and economic growth. I want to make that dream a reality! ...
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Spending summer keeping busy
Litchfield Independent Review
by Andrew Wig Bill King, left, a social studies teacher at Litchfield Middle School, spends his summers painting alongside other Litchfield teachers also looking for something with which to fill the down months. School is out for the summer, ...
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CSIRO GM crop attacked by Greenpeace had "negligible" risk
Australian Life Scientist
“The destroyed trial was a small research trial that had been approved after assessment by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR). The OGTR had assessed the trial to offer no significant threat to human health or the environment.”
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Beauregard implements CORE 4 graduation requirements (7/14)
The American Press (blog)
All high school students in the Louisiana CORE 4 diploma track must take four years of the core curriculum тАФ English, mathematics, science and social studies тАФ as part of the requirements to receive a Louisiana high school diploma. ...
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Emerging Markets Clinical Trials Help Development Teams Meet Patient ...
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
The study is part of a series of studies from Cutting Edge Information about managing clinical trials in emerging markets. The studies include strategies and tactics for successful data quality delivery, site management and technology infrastructure ...
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New Research selected by LSE Library: Social science sites of the week
By Heather Dawson
Access over 300 public lectures and conference programmes covering a range of social science topic areas. This is in addition to the YouTube channel And the audio and video page. For further examples of academic iTunes content browse the ... of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, this key research centre is investigating young people's use of technology. ...
New Research selected by LSE Library

LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, Jul 15, 2011


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Libya After Qaddafi
Project Syndicate
Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and – rendered in black-comedy style – in Libya. But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the ...
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Tunisian Forces Disperse Protesters
Voice of America
Tunisia's unrest sparked what is known as the Arab Spring, which led to citizens calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Libya. Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters. ...
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Syrian Security Kills Protester as Rallies Demand Assad Ouster
Bloomberg
The uprising in Syria is part of a wave of revolts that has swept parts of the Arab world this year, toppling the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, before spreading to other countries including Libya, Bahrain and Yemen. Syrian security forces have killed...
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'Tripoli will burn' GADDAFI CRAFTS SUICIDE PLAN
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Qurmouzi said in the poem that led to her arrest that Sunnis and Shi'ites were united against Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. Syrian security forces killed four people as the West ratcheted up pressure for UN Security Council action against ...
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Cultural revolution: How artists have been inspired by the Arab Spring
The Independent
Now it's cool to be an Egyptian, totally awesome to be a Tunisian, Syrian, Libyan,Bahraini or Yemeni dissident and to be an artist from these places is, well, very heaven. Longstanding stereotypes of Arabs as stupidly rich, misogynist, violent, ...
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Africa: On the African Awakenings
AllAfrica.com
We are all familiar with the extraordinary events that took place in Tunisia andEgypt that led to the downfall of Ben Ali and Mubarak, and were followed by popular uprisings in Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and elsewhere in what is known today as the Middle ...
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Unemployment rate rising rapidly: Minister
Daily Mirror
All these countries where there was unrest and turmoil — Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria etc. have a higher Per Capita Income and Foreign Exchange Reserves than Sri Lanka for a pretty long time.
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The Arab Spring will take a while to reach completion
Bellingham Herald
Tunisia and Egypt and have already accomplished the first stage of liberation. Other societies are struggling hard to complete the first phase: Revolts confront obstinate and insecure regimes in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria. And some rulers consider ...
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Uprisings Not On the Backburner
Roubini.com (subscription)
Acute political conflict has been contained to a handful of countries, most notablyLibya, Syria and Yemen, and to a lesser extent Bahrain, but all have been affected. In Egypt and Tunisia, where regimes were toppled quickly, temporary[. ...
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Safe destinations in the Middle East | Global Changes
By David
Certainly, there are no-go areas in the Middle East, such as Libya, Bahrain, Yemenand Syria. But what about Egypt, Jordan and Morocco? ... Global Changes in Your World. The World is Changing. Get the Latest News on the issues that effect us all. Find out how people are changing the world around us, and how you can change it too ...
Global Changes
Middle East Update: July - Islam News Room
Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Yemen middle_east1. Now What? ... Obama administration is open to dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt because "it is ...
islamnewsroom.com/news-we-need/1613-middle-east-update
BBC News - Arab Spring: Unfinished business for protesters
Ruler overthrown: Tunisia and Egypt; Uprising in progress: Libya, Syria andYemen; Major protests and clampdown: Bahrain; Stirrings of dissent: Jordan, ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14153583
Tear Gas, Gunfire Used to Break Up Tunisian Clashes ... - VOA News
Voice of America ®. A Trusted Source of News & Information since 1942 ... to citizens calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen Jordan and Libya. ...
www.voanews.com/.../Tunisian-Soldiers-Break-Up-Clashes-wit...
The Arab Spring Has Given Way to a Long, Hot Summer
News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian-related Issues Worldwide. ... Tunisia , Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, and Libya have had their turn; now Syria occupies ...Syria's future rests on whether a handful of Alawite generals are prepared to ...
www.aina.org/news/20110706190653.htm
RSS Egypt | Egypt News | Tear Gas, Gunfire Used to Break Up ...
Posted on 14 July 2011 by VOA News. Tunisian soldiers fired in the air and lobbed... calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen Jordan and Libya. ...
rssmasr.com/.../tear-gas-gunfire-used-to-break-up-tunisian-clas...
Soliders break up clashes in Southern Tunisia | Libya TV
The Tunisia state news agency said the army fired shots in the air to disperse ...saw revolution quickly spread to Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. ...
english.libya.tv/.../soliders-break-up-clashes-in-southern-tunisi...
Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Middle East unrest - 8 July 2011 | World ...
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks on Yemen TV, Egyptian .... It was Qassemi's rapid translation of Arab language news into English that won him a gobal .... Syria, Libya, Yemen, Israel and Middle East unrest - Friday 20 May 2011 ..... Doesn't Sultan think the brutal crackdown occurring in Bahrain gives an...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-egypt-yemen-middle-east-unrest...
YouTube - Gaddafi / Syria Kill 24 / Afgan / Yemen / E-Coli ...
Hillary Clinton says Libya Gaddafi must go now, but at the same time she embraces the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt! Syria kills 24 more because of protest of ... ... the government in bahrain is like the government in syria. ... All the videos i see on the news and youtube i never see any troops shooting the ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zFOAj45sA

LATEST World News, Jul 15, 2011


REFILE-IASB 'on way' to being global accounting standard
Reuters
By next year two thirds of the world's top 20 economies (G20) will be allowing or requiring local listed companies to use the IFRS accounting rules. Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and China have adopted or were adopting the ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jul 15, 2011

Phil Mullan on the Eurozone crisis
Spiked
The Euro crisis, like just about every other economic story these days, has a three-fold character. It is not, in fact, a single crisis; it has three inter-related elements: financial, economic and political. Of the three, the financial crisis is, ...
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Hidden Yen Signal & Gold Breakout
Gold Seek
With the mushroom of European sovereign debt ruin, the contagion to Italy and soon Greece, the declaration of junk status for Portugal and Ireland in addition to the toxic paper blowing from Mt Olympus, the new dawn of Global Financial Crisis part II ...
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Today's Equity Dilemma: Micro Versus Macro Investing
Forbes (blog)
Imagine the financial panic if the US government (the world's safest borrower) were to default on its debt, causing global interest rates to rise. Or if the European debt crisis spun out of control leading to a run on money market funds that hold ...
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China Cities Sell Land at Winnetka Values With $1 Trillion Debt Seen Toxic
Bloomberg
Subsequent losses prompted the US government and central bank to lend, spend or guarantee a peak of $12.8 trillion in 2009 to rescue the financial industry, including a $45 billion directinvestment to rescue Citigroup Inc. (C), then the biggest US ...
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Scrap the stupid debt ceiling law
The Guardian
Photograph: The White House/Getty Images The world should have taken much better precautions to child-proof the global financial system when the new House Republican majority swept into power this year. It didn't take long for this chest-thumping wave ...
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Gold to Fall Below $1320 in Second Half of 2011
DailyFX
In their scenario, global growth would snap back quickly and central banks would not be able to mop up the flood of cheap money they had created through record-low interest rates and quantitative easing during the crisis. This would cause prices to ...
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Navigating the Hype -- and Opportunities -- in Emerging Private Equity Markets
Knowledge@Wharton
Another challenge is navigating today's often "overvalued" investment environment, Harris said. "Every time I pull the trigger on an investment, I think about thefinancial crisis and what we all went through; but the bond market doesn't. ...
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European leaders take aim at rating agencies
Prague Post
Those events are seen as a flashpoint in the international economic crisis unleashed in the following months, from which much of the world is still trying to recover. In a self-admission that they had inflated credit ratings on a grand scale, ...
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Return of the Stop-Go Economy
BullionVault
In the absence of autonomous commercial bank money creation (and credit magnification) in order to accommodate private sector needs (as is arguably the case today), these banks — and, in spades, the Bank of England — can only create money by issuing ...
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Chinese Outward Investment: More Opportunity Than Danger
Heritage.org
The financial crisis had an impact in late 2008 and early 2009, and while there was a clear recovery, there has not yet been a return to the powerful growth before the crisis. It may be that global asset markets cannot absorb much more than $60 billion ...
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LOM launches stable income fund
Royal Gazette
He said that the latest economic data pointed to a slow and bumpy recovery with many of the world's largest economies taking on too much debt, particularly in light of the Greek financial crisisand its knock-on effect on the Eurozone, ...
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Rental complex
CanadianBusiness.com
In May, Ben Rabidoux, an Ontario financial adviser (and an unapologetic renter) who runs theEconomic Analyst blog, illustrated the unprecedented gap that's opened between the cost of renting and owning with a series of fever graphs charting rents and ...
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warns time is running out
Daily Mail
The White House had no immediate reaction to the plan which came a few hours before Obama presided over his third meeting in as many days with congressional leaders searching for a way to avoid a default and ensuing financial crisis. ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'BP pumps 3 billion into North Sea' - Daily Express
Proactive Investors UK
Gold hits new high as nervous investors pile into safe-havens: The price of gold raced to a record high as investors nervous about the debt crisis in Europe and the stuttering global economy piled into safe-havens. Banks back US Volcker rule to avoid ...
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Analysis - SE Asia more wary of QE3 than U.S. debt default
Reuters
"If not, it would be disastrous for the global financial system global and economy," Kwan said. A more pressing concern for Southeast Asia would be if the Federal Reserve began a third round of quantitative easing (QE3), where it buys US debt to keep ...
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Thursday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...
FinFacts Ireland
It was time for Europe to "grasp the nettle" and set out a comprehensive response to the financial crisis, he added. Worries grew when German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece was funded until September so there was no rush to finalise the details ...
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