Mars 2010 ................................
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Economie
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9
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2010
Kenneth Rogoff spoke with CNBC today about the threat of sovereign debt crises today.
The Key Points :
When countries hit gross government debt as 90-100% of GDP, problems are bound to arise.
If countries go too long with stimulus it can leave them in a debt trap and with prolonged slow growth. (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
Christopher Wood est analyste à CLSA, spécialiste de l’Asie
« My view is that there is an inevitable endgame as a result of all this massive spending of taxpayer money in the West and Japan to bail out bankrupt banking systems, so in my view unfortunately the end game will be systemic government (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
Real Personal Income Less Transfer Payments
Calculated Risk directed us to a lesser know economic indicator, real personal income less transfer payments, a measure intended to strip out some of the impact of automatic stabilizers in the personal income data. I found it an interesting series (...)
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Economie
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9
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2010
Make Markets Be Markets embed i
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Sociétés
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9
mars
2010
Revealed : The Shocking Truth About Tasers
A commuter in a diabetic coma, an 89-year-old man and children as young as 12 - just some of the targets of British police armed with skin-piercing 50,000-volt Taser guns. As the Home Office investigates bringing an even more powerful rifle version to (...)
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International
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9
mars
2010
MIRANSHAH : Three missiles fired by US drone aircraft killed five persons on Monday in North Waziristan tribal region.
The missiles from two drones hit a militant compound in Miranshah, killing five persons and injuring three others.
According to reports, two drones fired three missiles in (...)
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International
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9
mars
2010
THE ULTIMATE MISSION TO ISRAEL
Monday, June 21 - Monday, June 28, 2010
Experience a dynamic and intensive eight day exploration of Israel’s struggle for survival and security in the Middle East today : "a military, humanitarian, historical, judicial, religious, and political reality check." (...)
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International
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9
mars
2010
The Israeli peace camp didn’t die. It was never born in the first place. While it’s true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the occupation - all worthy of recognition - a large, influential peace camp has never existed here.
It’s (...)
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International
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9
mars
2010
Afghanistan Confirms Ahmadinejad’s Visit to Kabul
TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan sources on Monday dismissed some media reports alleging that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cancelled his upcoming visit to Kabul, and assured that the trip would take place on schedule. "Iranian President (...)
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International
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9
mars
2010
For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up in February that (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
(The author is a professor at Peking University’s Center for China Economic Research)
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In the current economic statistics system, problems arise in three areas : (1) Critical data are not accurate, e.g. how much does GDP grow ? (2) Important data are not collected, e.g. the National Bureau of (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
Is it me, or do recent economic reports have something in common (italics mine) ?
"U.S. Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly" (Associated Press)
The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. unexpectedly surged last week after having fallen sharply in (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
THE North Sea has a viable future for the next 30 years, or beyond, provided oil heads above $200 a barrel, an industry expert has forecast.
Matt Simmons, the founder and chairman emeritus of energy investment specialist Simmons & Company International, said there was a bright future for the UK (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois is near the point of fiscal disintegration. "The state is in utter crisis," said Representative Suzie Bassi. "We are next to bankruptcy. We have a $13bn hole in a $28bn budget."
The state has been paying bills with unfunded vouchers since October. A fifth (...)
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Environnement
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9
mars
2010
Grizzly bears are being spotted in Manitoba, Canada, where biologists say only polar bears are usually found.
Scientists from City University of New York say sightings are increasing.
"Grizzlies would likely hibernate in polar bear maternity denning habitat," says CUNY’s Linda Gormezano.
They (...)
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Environnement
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9
mars
2010
Infographie interactive AMSU (Requiert JAVA)
The DISCOVER Project
The primary objective of the Distributed Information Services for Climate and Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research (DISCOVER) Project is to provide highly accurate, long-term ocean and climate products suitable (...)
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Economie
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9
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2010
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As Rolfe Winkler noted last September :
For the big have gotten even bigger since the start of the financial crisis. At the end of 2007, the Big Four banks - Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo - held 32 percent of all deposits in FDIC-insured institutions. As of June (...)
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Social
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9
mars
2010
The economy continues to change the retirement timeline for many mature workers, leaving them with tough decisions about their futures.
More than seven-in-ten (72 percent) workers over the age of 60 who said they are putting off their retirement are doing so because they can’t afford to (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
The Asian superpower is in the midst of such a vast property boom, with prices leaping 20pc a month in some regions, that developments are taking on fairy-tale dimensions.
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With its alpine clock tower soaring 200ft into the murk emitted by nearby chimneys, the "Spring Legend" development (...)
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Guerre et Paix
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9
mars
2010
One in three "militants" killed in US Predator Drone attacks in Pakistan’s remote tribal areas is in fact a civilian, according to a report by an American think tank.
The report, by the Washington-based New America Foundation, will fuel growing criticism of the use of unmanned drones in the (...)
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Guerre et Paix
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9
mars
2010
Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion.
The city witnessed fierce fighting in 2004 as US forces carried out a major offensive against insurgents.
Now, the level of heart defects among (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
MORE than $1 in every $10 that American banks have outstanding in loans is lent to a troubled borrower, a ratio far higher than previously seen in the quarter-century that such numbers have been compiled.
Graphique
The problems are greatest in construction loans for single-family homes, where (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
When we made the mistake of saying "milliseconds," instead of "microseconds" at a Mankoff Group HFT conference the other night, we were quickly corrected.
"Trading in milliseconds is from like, last century," a trader told us.
"The new frontier is microseconds," another added.
"We’re trying to (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
Fuel shortages and other hurdles will put new electricity generation targets in Saudi Arabia out of reach, analysts say, as the kingdom prepares to use more of its valuable crude oil to keep domestic lights on and air conditioners running.
Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), the state utility, (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
President Barack Obama’s budget proposal would create bigger deficits than advertised every year of the next decade, with the shortfalls totaling $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The nonpartisan agency said yesterday the (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
ITT Educational Services Inc. paid $20.8 million for debt-ridden Daniel Webster College in June. In return, the company obtained an academic credential that may generate a taxpayer-funded bonanza worth as much as $1 billion.
ITT Educational, the U.S.’s third-biggest higher education company (...)
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Economie
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9
mars
2010
Yesterday I argued that Latvia’s cost-cutting efforts are evident compared to a cross-section of European Union countries. Latvia’s efforts, while commendable, were very much a function of the emergency IMF loan in December 2008 and the ensuing recession in 2009.
After an email exchange with (...)
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Environnement
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9
mars
2010
[The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has] issued a remarkable, though little-remarked-on, report in January, “Probabilistic Forecast for 21st Century Climate Based on Uncertainties in Emissions (without Policy) and Climate Parameters,” by over a dozen leading experts. They reanalyzed (...)
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Février 2010 ................................
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Economie
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27
février
2010
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En versant 3,65 milliards d’euros de dividendes à ses actionnaires ... l’entreprise épuise la totalité de son bénéfice. Il faudra même ajouter au pot pour compléter, puisque le résultat net n’est que de 3,47 milliards d’euros.
Bref, la répartition équitable du bénéfice en trois tiers égaux, un pour les (...)
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France
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26
février
2010
Le Syndicat de la magistrature prend connaissance avec consternation des annonces brutales tombant, jour après jour, dans tous les tribunaux. En début d’année, les cours d’appel se sont en effet vu notifier par la Chancellerie un abaissement très important des crédits affectés à la rémunération des magistrats, (...)
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