Lee Kuan Yew towers over other Asian leaders on the international stage, yet he comes from one of Asia’s smallest countries. A champion of Asian values, he is most un-Asian in his frank and confrontational style
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A Tale of 600 Cities
Chongqing.
For U.S. Economy, Short-Term Good News Is Bad News
It is now conventional wisdom that the U.S. faces an acute fiscal calamity
Your Incredible Shrinking Paycheck
Before I started writing this column on why paychecks are likely to keep shrinking even if unemployment starts to inch down, I consulted Google to see if the term Marxism was trending upward. It was and has been ever since the end of December, the conclusion of a year in which workers’ share of the U.S
Europe experiences worst quarterly GDP fall
Europe experienced its worst quarterly drop in GDP in the first three months of the year, shedding 2.5 percent as German exports tumbled and investment plummeted across the 27-country bloc. European Union statistics released Friday showed German GDP fell more than any quarter since the country’s 1990 reunification, falling 3.8 percent from the last quarter of 2008. French GDP also slipped by 1.2 percent compared to the previous quarter, while Italian GDP fell 2.4 percent, the country’s heaviest decline since 1980.