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19
août
2010
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19
août
2010
The entire country is in the grip of a depression. Everything seems to be going downhill. The spiral is continuing unabated, and there is no clear way out.
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"If you take away my family’s bread, I’ll take you down — the government needs to know that," Meletis says. "And don’t call us (...)
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Economie
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2
août
2010
Why are deflationistas like me worried about the possibility of deflation ? In a word, history.
Back when I learned macroeconomics - this was when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we performed simulations using stone axes, and students still learned about fiscal policy - one thing we were taught was (...)
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Economie
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2
août
2010
Across the United States, thousands of federally financed stimulus projects are under way, aimed at bolstering the economy and putting people to work. The results so far have not been spectacular.
Why not ? There’s nothing wrong with the idea of fiscal stimulus itself. We need more stimulus, (...)
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Economie
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2
août
2010
Graphique : Le prix des biens s’est effondré, l’en cours de crédit est resté stable
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Naturally our financial leaders around the world took the radical steps required to reduce the debt created in a massive credit bubble. Oh, sorry, that was my fantasy world I was talking about. What our leaders (...)
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Economie
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2
août
2010
Economics seems to be the science of forgetting. All the great truths that were pounded into our heads when we grad students, or even undergrads, seem to be missing from the thinking of those making pronouncements on the economy and economic policy.
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it is remarkable how little attention a (...)
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Economie
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2
août
2010
“We work day and night and try to save for our retirement. But we are never more than a pay check or two from the streets.”
the annual incomes of the bottom 90 per cent of US families have been essentially flat since 1973 - having risen by only 10 per cent in real terms over the past 37 years. (...)
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Juin 2010 ................................
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Sociétés
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15
juin
2010
An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
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Professor Forgas said : "Whereas positive (...)
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International
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15
juin
2010
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously (...)
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International
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1er
juin
2010
Hundreds of Israelis gathered outside the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv Monday evening in protest against Ankara’s involvement in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
The demonstrators waved Israeli flags, sang the national anthem and called on the Turkish government not to intervene in Israel’s affairs. (...)
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Guerre et Paix
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1er
juin
2010
Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline.
The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organisation in (...)
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Environnement
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1er
juin
2010
Wikipedia Ixtoc I oil spill
Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible platform Sedco 135F in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (160 ft) deep On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a (...)
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International
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1er
juin
2010
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has accused Israel of kidnapping Irish citizens in international waters.
Micheál Martin is furious after Israel announced it would deport all foreign nationals seized from a convoy of ships carrying aid to Gaza.
Israel launched an attack on the flotilla (...)
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International
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1er
juin
2010
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday ordered the opening of the Rafah border crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, the official MENA agency reported.
The order came a day after a deadly raid by Israeli commandos on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, which has been under a (...)
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International
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1er
juin
2010
As details slowly emerge in the wake of Israel’s deadly attack on a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, leaders from Turkey’s ruling and opposition parties raise their voices to condemn the action. It is the latest and worst incident in a long line of troublesome encounters over the (...)
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International
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1er
juin
2010
Organizers of the Gaza aid flotilla that was the target of a deadly Israeli naval raid have said they’re sending two more ships to the area within the next few days.
Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement said a cargo boat was already on the way to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. (...)
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Economie
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1er
juin
2010
... Calstrs (the Californian State Teachers Retirement System), the second-biggest US pension fund, [is] launching its first big push into commodities investing.
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Calstrs is set to vote later this week on a “long-term strategic allocation to commodities”, adding bulk goods such as oil, sugar (...)
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Economie
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1er
juin
2010
On Monday, Germany’s Der Spiegel claimed that German central bankers had hit out at the European Central Bank’s government bond-buying programme (the SMP) for . . . being French !
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Der Spiegel : By buying up Greek debt, the ECB keeps the prices of the bonds artificially high. French banks, in (...)
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Mai 2010 ................................
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Economie
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31
mai
2010
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil into backup containers, drastically cutting supply down the main artery between refineries and Alaska’s oilfields. (...)
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Economie
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31
mai
2010
Guess how long it is before the state of New York runs out of cash ? Less than a week, according to the state’s comptroller.
On June 1, New York is due to send $3.8 billion in aid to local school districts, including $2.1 billion that was supposed to be paid in March but not sent for lack of (...)
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International
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31
mai
2010
About 10 percent of the 240 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when President Obama took office were "leaders, operatives and facilitators involved in plots against the United States," but the majority were low-level fighters, according to a previously undisclosed government report. About (...)
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Economie
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31
mai
2010
Here’s the most near-term and acute challenge for Italy and Spain right now. Both nations face a large wave of government debt coming due over the next three years, as shown by their debt maturity profiles below from Der Spiegel.
Graphiques
Italy : 251.5 billion euros of debt maturing this year, (...)
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Environnement
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31
mai
2010
The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public. A government report just released provides for the first time a comprehensive official history of Britain’s biological weapons trials between 1940 (...)
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Environnement
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31
mai
2010
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season outlook is an official product of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC). ...
This outlook is general guide to the expected overall activity during the upcoming hurricane season. It is not a seasonal (...)
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Environnement
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31
mai
2010
The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.
Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent (...)
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Environnement
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31
mai
2010
two submerged clouds of noxious oil and chemical dispersants have been confirmed by research vessels, and scientists are seeing initial signs of several more. The largest is some 22 miles long, six miles wide and 3,300 feet deep - a volume that would take up half of Lake Erie.
The world’s most (...)
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Environnement
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31
mai
2010
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International
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31
mai
2010
Since the end of the 1960s, the alliance between Israel and the United States has been an open one. Israel learned to reject any solution to the conflict with the Palestinians with the aid of the "Soviet interest" demon and turned itself into a stick. Its withdrawal from the territories was the (...)
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International
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31
mai
2010
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that proposed stricter United Nations sanctions won’t bring an end to Iran’s nuclear program.
“I don’t see that this causes sufficient pain,” Powell said on ABC’s “This Week” program.
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“The Iranians have been around for thousands of years, trading (...)
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Environnement
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31
mai
2010
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