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...Much of the funding came principally from Kohn in Philadelphia and Burford, which operated at least part in the United States. Absent the US activity, there would have been no scheme.”...
...So if the US has Dutch disease, from reading Robinson et al (2006) we'd expect for the value from the creation of new federal debt to be distributed as patronage, to a small group of people with access to...
...Economics The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse, by Mohamed El-Erian, Yale, RRP£18.99/Random House, RRP$28 Central banks saved the world economy from collapse...
...This country had a sovereign debt crisis in both 1982 and 1994, the first of which threatened to leave a number of American banks insolvent, including Citicorp and Bank of America, if the banks had not agreed...
...in his 50-year career not just screen westerns but America itself....
...He argues that money is not, in essence, currency, used as a “means of exchange”. It is, on the contrary, a unit of value, a system of accounts and transferable credit....
...A similar 2009 study by Mikael Höök et al. found a production-weighted average decline rate of 5.5 percent per year. Other estimates have ranged as high as 8 percent....
...More than $4bn in bulk cash was also transported from Mexican banks to Wachovia accounts....
...We will spare no effort to reach agreement in Copenhagen through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. 30....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...“When poor India’s people experience an increase of income, one of the first things they do is to buy gold,” says Om Prakash Bhatt, chairman of State Bank of India in Mumbai....
...Ahearne et al., “Preventing Deflation: Lessons From Japan’s Experience in the 1990s,” Federal Reserve International Discussion Paper, June 2002)....
...They had 50 years of ‘Brother raise your head, the age of tyranny is over’ and ‘Trust in God’. The most powerful people in politics today are bank managers and business people.”...
...It was apparent in 1990 that years or decades would pass before the newly freed Länder, or states, of the east would catch up with the west, which had 50 years of capitalism and democratic growth behind...
...“The Places in Between”, his account of walking across Afghanistan in the winter of 2001-2002, is published by Picador....
...Supreme Court’s historic finding in the case of Rasul et al v....
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