Worst of the U.S. recession over: survey | U.S. | Reuters

Posted by Matt in October 12th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Business Economists, Economic Recovery, Nabe, President Elect, Recession, Reuters, Steep Declines, Survey

I would feel much better about the recession ending if we weren’t headed for a cliff.
“The great recession is over,” said NABE President-Elect Lynn Reaser.
“The vast majority of business economists believe that the recession has ended, but that the economic recovery is likely to be more moderate than those typically experienced following steep declines.”
Worst of [...]

Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs for 2008

Posted by Matt in June 15th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Medical, Alice Park, Amniocentesis, Amniotic Fluid, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Gene, Craig Venter, Daniel Garcia, Embryonic Stem Cell, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Federal Funding For Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Genetic Tests, James Watson, Medical Breakthroughs, Normal Cholesterol Levels, President Elect, Scarless, Stem Cell Research, Structure Of Dna, Time Specials, Watson Co

1. First Neurons Created from ALS Patients
President-elect Obama has pledged to lift the seven-year ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research — a …
www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863993,00.html – Similar -
2. Inflammation vs. Cholesterol
Half of all heart attacks in the U.S. occur in people with normal cholesterol levels. Baffled? …
www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863993_1863998,00.html [...]

The Great Recession

Posted by Matt in February 16th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Niall Ferguson, Ascent, Barack Obama, Ecomomic, Economic Crisis, Economic System, Economists, Financial History, Global Financial Crisis, Harvard, Historian, History Of The World, Niall-Ferguson, Oxford, President Elect, Proportions, Recession, Repression, Time Magazine, Unprecedented Complexity, Video Link, Voices, Writing A Book

“An economic crisis of historic proportions.” That’s what President Elect Barack Obama calls this global financial crisis. Others go futher, warning that another world-wide Depression is still possible. The crisis is especially worrying because even leading economists are struggling to understand its unprecedented complexity.
But our guest today, historian Niall Ferguson, suggests we take the long [...]

U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China

Posted by Matt in January 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Economy, U.S., Appetite, Barack Obama, China, Chinese Policy, Deficits, Dollar, Economic Stimulus Package, Few Days, First Glance, Inopportune Time, Official Statistics, President Elect, Trillion

If China doesn’t want to fund our debt, how are we going to fund our trillion-dollar yearly deficits? I have a bad feeling about this.
From the article:
At first glance, the declining Chinese appetite for U.S. debt – apparent in a series of hints from Chinese policy makers over the past two weeks, with official statistics [...]

The Russian Gamble

Posted by Matt in December 19th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, Barack Obama, Billionaire, Brink, Cnbc, Currency, Earth, Economic Collapse, Economic Crisis, Erin Burnett, Financial Crisis, Freefall, Global Financial Crisis, moscow, Oil And Gas, Oil Exporter, Oil Gas, Oil Prices, President Elect, Russia, Russia Russia, Slide Show, Stock Markets, Stock Prices, World Oil

Russia is reeling from the global financial crisis: its stock markets plunging , its currency on the brink. The drop in oil prices means the world’s second largest oil exporter – recently rich – is now in the red. How will America end up paying? Will financial crisis turn into political and military instability? Will [...]

Panel warns biological attack likely by 2013

Posted by Matt in December 1st, 2008 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, U.S., Biological Attack, Biological Terrorism, Biological Weapons, Bipartisan Commission, Germ Warfare, Joe Biden, Margin Of Safety, President Elect, Terrorist Attack, terrorists, United States, Vice President

The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.
“Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing,” [...]

Global Trends 2025

Posted by Matt in November 21st, 2008 | no comment

Published in general, Barack Obama, Challenge World, Decades, Dwindling Resources, Economic Power, Europe, Future World, Global Dominance, Global Instability, Global Set, Global Trends, Global Wealth, Inauguration, Intelligence Report, Medvedev, Modern History, National Intelligence Council, Nuclear Arms, People, Political Dominance, President Elect, Scarce Resources, Seeds, Trend, Us Dominance

Global Trends 2025, a new report written by the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) ahead of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, envisages a future world marked by diminished US power, dwindling resources, and more people.
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The current trend of global wealth and economic power shifting roughly from West to East, described as “without precedent in modern history”, [...]

Top 10 foreign challenges for Obama

Posted by Matt in November 6th, 2008 | no comment

Published in U.S., 20 January, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Challenges, China, Climate Change Energy, diplomacy, Finance, Foreign Policy, Iran, iraq, Middle East Peace, Middle East Peace Process, North-Korea, Obama, President Elect, Russia, War On Terror

President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office on 20 January 2009, will face a number of key foreign policy problems. Here are 10 current challenges – and how he might tackle them.
1. US ROLE IN THE WORLD
2. IRAQ
3. AFGHANISTAN
4. WAR ON TERROR
5. IRAN
6. MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
7. RUSSIA
8. NORTH KOREA
9. CHINA
10. ‘NEW DIPLOMACY’: FINANCE, CLIMATE CHANGE, [...]

Russia welcomes Barack Obama with deployment of nuclear-capable missiles

Posted by Matt in November 6th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, U.S., American Speech, Baltic, Barack Obama, Borders, Central Europe, Deliberate Attempt, Deployment, Exclave, Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Medvedev, Missile Defence Shield, Obama, Poland, President Elect, Retaliation, Russia, Surface Missiles

In what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to rattle the president-elect, Mr Medvedev said that short-range Iskander surface-to-surface missiles would be stationed in Russia’s baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, which borders EU states Poland and Lithuania.
Delivering his most aggressively anti-American speech yet, Mr Medvedev said he was ordering the deployment in retaliation to a missile [...]