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China Economic Power Unsettles Neighbors

China Economic Power Unsettles Neighbors

China has long claimed to be just another developing nation, even as its economic power far outstripped that of any other emerging country. Now, it is finding it harder to cast itself as a friendly alternative to an imperious American superpower. For many in Asia, it is the new colossus.

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JPM's Dimon to Replace Geithner at Treasury..??

JPM's Dimon to Replace Geithner at Treasury..??

Rumors persist in recent days that JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon is being considered as the most likely replacement for Tim Geithner at U.S. Treasury, as confidence in Geithner wanes because he is too cozy with Wall Street as he insists on soft reforms for the industry.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin Video: 'Too Big To Fail'

Andrew Ross Sorkin Video: 'Too Big To Fail'

If you’ve ever wanted to be a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ in the clubby, heavily wood-paneled board rooms or the glass-encased corner offices of chief executives when the deal is being negotiated, this is it.

The book is interesting, detailed and crammed with an ‘insider’s’ perspective as the drama that precipitated the ‘Great Recession’ unfolded.

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Must Read: 'On Fooling People All the Time'

Must Read: 'On Fooling People All the Time'

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of that revealing saga. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing how the $6 billion hedge fund Greenlight Capital conducts its investment research detailing the maneuvers of unscrupulous companies, greed-laden executives and the previaling orthodoxies of Wall Street leading up to the precipitation of the 2008 financial crisis. It is a compelling read.

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China Continues Robust Economic Growth

China Continues Robust Economic Growth

China’s industrial production and trade surplus posted robust double-digit gains in October, indicating a strengthening recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. China, unlike the U.S. and other western industrial nations, has managed well in the advance of the global economic crisis.

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IMF: Asia’s Savings & Investment Dilemma

IMF: Asia’s Savings & Investment Dilemma

As Asia starts down the path to recovery, it is going to have to tackle two issues which are constraining its long-term growth potential: firms that save but do not invest and wealthy households that are reluctant to consume.

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Video: 'Too Big to Fail' is 'Too Big to Exist'

Video: 'Too Big to Fail' is 'Too Big to Exist'

As the economic crisis and the plight of ordinary Americans deepen, the Obama administration is finally beginning to embrace stronger bank and financial industry reforms proposed by courageous refromers such as Paul Volcker, Sheila Bair, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank and former NYS Governor, Eliot Spitzer. It’s about time!

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The Global Economy & U.S. Foreign Policy

The Global Economy & U.S. Foreign Policy

Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group, a political risk advisory firm, provides a ‘bird’s eye’ overview of the impact of the Obama foreign policy agenda — the “New Era of Engagement” doctrine — on the world, on U.S. corporate competitiveness and on global markets.

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Obama Economist Favors Stronger TBTF Reforms

Obama Economist Favors Stronger TBTF Reforms

Former Federal Reserve Bank Chair, Paul A. Volcker and Chair of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, has beed advocating for more aggressive reform and regulation of the financial industry, but is being resisted by the administration’s top economist – who have strong ties to Wall Street.

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China Rising

China Rising

China’ economic emergence mirror’s America’s rise and how it was perceived by Britain at the height of the industrial revolution more than a century ago.

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Too Big to Fail: White House Doesn't Get It

Former NYS Governor Eliot Spitzer takes the President and his economic team to task for their light and soft approach to financial industry reform, and their failure to hold large financial corporations accountable for their continued practices that place the nation’s economy in more peril.

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Washington Must Oppose 'Big Business' Lobby

Washington Must Oppose 'Big Business' Lobby

Bank lobby and ‘Big Business’ influence-peddling in Washington is at crisis levels that threatens the U.S. Congress’s constitutional duties to protect the ‘public welfare’ all enemies – foreign AND domestic.

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Guns vs Bandaids: The Comparative Economy of Health Reform

Guns vs Bandaids: The Comparative Economy of Health Reform

Examines the comparative political economy of the Obama Healthcare reform debate by exploring the national opportunity cost functions of healthcare reform vs. military spending and how to pay for it. Article suggests a re-allocation of the nation’s muscular sacred cow — military spending as a means to pay for a national universal healthcare system.

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CAPITALISM: A Love Story

CAPITALISM: A Love Story

A ‘Must See’ political documentary by Michael Moore that provides a clear-eyed view of American-style capitalism in the larger context of the global financial crisis. He clearly unravels the mystery of all the moving parts and tells a . He does a brilliant job of defining previaling sentiment — the zeitgeist, the angst of the present public mood.

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I.M.F. Upgrades Forecast for U.S. & Global Economies

I.M.F. Upgrades Forecast for U.S. & Global Economies

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday forecast that the world economy would expand 3.1 percent next year, after a year in which much of the world struggled through a recession.

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