| January 3 |
- “Incoherence and utter failure”
- Jerry Brown minces no words as California ushers in the new year by suing the EPA.
- Betrayal: A Silicon Valley way of life
- A Santa Clara chip equipment manufacturer accuses a Chinese competitor of stealing trade secrets. So what else is new?
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| January 4 |
- The economic consequences of Huckabee
- What would Jesus do in a recession? More tax cuts for the rich? Or a new New Deal?
- Pop goes the solar bubble?
- One analyst believes global demand for solar power is about to be swamped by oversupply. We should be so lucky.
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| January 7 |
- Made in China: The Bible
- One out of every 138 humans on the planet is a Chinese blogger, and other fun facts from the Middle Kingdom.
- Time for an economic steroid shot?
- Election year fun-and-games: With a recession looming, some economists are calling for an immediate middle-class tax break.
- Wind turbines for Mongolian nomads
- A visit to the World Bank’s Google Maps mashup is an exercise in obscure development project serendipity
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| January 8 |
- A natural experiment in Republican biodiversity
- When it comes to science, the Democrats walk in lockstep. But the GOP candidates for president offer a little something for everyone.
- The Bush legacy: No fat for the lean years
- After irresponsible tax cuts and a wild spending spree, governmental options for tackling an economic downturn are limited.
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| January 9 |
- The plastic ATM machine
- Credit card debt rose sharply in November. But what’s a trillion dollars, here or there?
- The nanotechnological wonders of Damascene steel
- A tale of “wootz” and Diocletian; Tamerlane, Tipu Sultan, and the Industrial Revolution.
- Moody’s lament: Our job is too hard
- The credit rating agency acknowledges that evaluating risk in contemporary financial markets is kind of a pickle
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| January 10 |
- Reverse cricket imperialism
- Who calls the shots in the global business of cricket? Middle-class Indian television viewers
- Leafy green insulin
- Is biopharmed lettuce the answer to a national diabetes epidemic?
- Ben “tough guy” Bernanke puts up his dukes
- Wall Street traders want more backbone from the Fed chair. Maybe he should just kick in their teeth
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| January 11 |
- Bank of Countrywide America
- His company a shattered wreck, CEO Angelo Mozilo now gets to go off and “have some fun.”
- Why do the Chinese revile Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman?
- James Fallows has been living in China and taking lots of notes. In this month’s Atlantic, he explains all.
- What Hillary would do tomorrow, if she could
- The action candidate lays out her plan for an immediate boost for the economy. Her timing couldn’t be better.
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| January 14 |
- Barney Frank on the regulation warpath
- The verdict is in on 30 years of “radical economic deregulation.” Guilty, guilty, guilty.
- The Toyota Prius outraces the Ford Explorer
- The king of the SUVs loses out to the little hatchback that could. Strangely, Mitt Romney neglected to mention this in Michigan
- Brazil’s Orkut rule
- Whenever possible, use digital media to subvert the cultural canon and defy hierarchy
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| January 15 |
- How Wall Street broke the free market
- When the likes of Kuwait and China are bailing out Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, capitalism as we know it has a problem.
- Brave new grocery shopping
- 2008: The year shopping carts came alive, thanks to Microsoft
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| January 16 |
- No debate on bankruptcy
- All the Democratic presidential candidates now say the 2005 Bankruptcy Act was a bad idea. Americans looking at their credit card bills probably agree.
- The socially responsible sovereign wealth fund
- Here’s a tip for China, Abu Dhabi and Singapore: Norway’s investment strategy is truly radical. It’s ethical.
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| January 17 |
- The odds for a U.S. recession just went up
- More bad news from Merrill Lynch and a housing start meltdown. Ben Bernanke decides that some government action “could be helpful”
- Ben Bernanke’s Goldman-Sachs secret
- The Fed chairman displays a rare sense of humor during a Congressional hearing
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| January 18 |
- Did somebody say recession?
- The last time politicians fought over how to jump-start the economy, we all got paid. Can we now expect a check in the mail?
- Running with the bulls (and PETA) in Tamil Nadu
- A day the bullocks look forward to? A chance to sharpen horns and get some payback? See for yourself
- The payoff from being environmentally correct
- Do strict environmental regulations breed competitive (and profitable) innovation? Would it help to wish really hard?
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| January 22 |
- Bernanke presses the panic button
- As economic chaos spreads across the world, the Fed reveals its true agenda: Protecting the irresponsible traders who created this mess.
- A failing grade in subprime literacy
- President Bush urges ordinary Americans to get become more financially literate. “Did they know what they were getting into?”
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| January 23 |
- The gloomy gospel according to George Soros
- No ordinary bubble: The current financial turmoil signals the end of a 60-year “super-boom.”
- The rate cut heard around the world
- In one swift move, Bernanke rescued not just Wall Street, but Shanghai, London, Mumbai and Tokyo too.
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| January 24 |
- Super insurance-commissioner-man to the rescue!
- As capitalism teeters on the brink, a New York state regulator gives the stock market new reason to believe.
- Bill Gates and Wal-Mart want to save the world
- Call it Capitalism 2.0: Microsoft’s founder and Wal-Mart’s CEO say there’s got to be a better way.
- Subprime: Word of the Year!
- The stunned prize recipient could hardly contain its jubilation: “You like me, you really like me!”
- Who do you trust on ethanol?
- As California hammers out its Low Carbon Fuel Standard, getting the science right on biofuels is no easy task
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| January 25 |
- No more food stamps. You’ve eaten enough
- The fiscal stimulus deal ignores those who will need help the most. Is it because food stamps make people fat?
- Guatemala’s nutrition lottery
- Protein shakes doled out 35 years ago pay economic dividends down the line. Somewhere, Adam Smith is pleased
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| January 28 |
- The long-term stupidity of global Hollywood
- U.S. blockbusters get dumb to grab international market share.
- The C.S. Lewis take on Gates and Wal-Mart
- Fake it ‘til you make it: Can posturing by the titans of commerce signify true change?
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| January 29 |
- Clinton and Obama on the streets of Beijing
- If China had a Democratic primary, which way would the Middle Kingdom go?
- Fragments of the Tocharian
- How did Buddha get from India to China? And what does a 97-year-old translator in Beijing have to do with it?
- The monopolist of doom visits Bangladesh
- In the mangrove swamps and urban slums, Robert Kaplan sees a connection between global warming and Islamic extremism.
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| January 30 |
- Economic growth slows from a sprint to near-paralysis
- Fourth quarter U.S. GDP stats show the housing bust finally biting to the bone. What do the numbers mean for the election?
- Seeking the cellphone future, in Kampala
- If people want to share their phones, then there is profit in making phones that are easy to share
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| January 31 |
- Dawning of the age of the Anthropocene
- Millenium, schmillenium: Humans have made such a mess it’s time for a whole new epoch.
- McCain: Greedy people should be punished
- The senator from Arizona explains to the folks at the National Review why the GOP is losing fans in Pensacola, Fla.
- Rupert Murdoch’s kowtow correspondence
- As if we needed even more proof of News Corp.’s willingness to cravenly curry favor at every opportunity.
- How Norway coddles its bikers
- These Vikings should be ashamed of themselves. Everyone knows hill climbing builds character
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