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Buying Local: How It Boosts the Economy
“Buy Local”—you see the decal in the store window, the sign at the farmer’s market, the bright, cheerful logos for Local First Arizona, Think Boise First, Our Milwaukee, and homegrown versions across the states.
What Recession? Spanish Club Pays $130M for Soccer Star Ronaldo
Dazzling moves, ambitious targets and intense pressure — it must be off-season in European soccer.
The 20 most wanted footballers
For Europe’s biggest leagues the football season has ended, the boring business of kicking a ball about is over, and now the real fun can begin as the transfer window opens.
Commercial Real Estate the Economy’s Anvil
Commercial real estate may soon bulldoze the green shoots. A coming wave of defaults on loans to developers of condominiums, office buildings and malls could do significant damage to the already deflating economy.
Vice Versa: Amsterdam Cleans Up
For Maurits Van Brunschot, the breaking point came nearly 21 years after he first settled amid the cobblestone alleyways of De Wallen, Amsterdam’s red-light district.
Ahmadinejad denies calling for Facebook ban
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday he did not call for a ban on Facebook during the country’s presidential election. “I should make an inquiry and ask about this,” he said when asked about reports that his government blocked access to the online social networking site. He added, “I believe in maximum freedom of expression.” The hardline Iranian president made the comment in response to a question from CNN at a news conference
GM: Using Taxpayer Dollars To Put Taxpayers Out Of Work
The Administration is starting to face some resistance in Congress about its plan to put GM into Chapter 11 using Treasury money to sustain the company as it works it way back to profitability. The government put another $4 billion into the car company Friday
China’s Public-Works Programs
Guizhou province, in southwestern China, is a place of striking natural beauty: jagged peaks surrounded by fields of bright green rape, ridges slashed with limestone outcrops and plunging waterfalls.
Financial Woes Spread to Smaller Banks
If you want to know whether the banking crisis is in the third inning or the ninth, consider Corus Bankshares. The Chicago regional bank has made just over $4 billion in commercial real estate loans. The recently completed government bank stress tests assumed that as many as 12% of all such loans could go bad in the next two years