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The Brain Drain Game: Why Everybody Loses.
As the Brain Drain Race between wealthy nations heats up, emerging countries will continue to lose any chance at economic stability, while wealthy nations lose potential partners and markets in the global economy.
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The Fall of Qaddafi/Gaddafi/Kadhafi: What Will It Mean?
As events unfold, many are pondering what the fall of Col Qaddafi will mean for the rest of the world.
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China Dominating Solar Energy Market
Thanks to huge loans from the Chinese Government, solar manufacturing has shifted from being led by a geographically disperse group to one dominated by Chinese companies.
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Global Crisis Boosts Ethical Banking
The financial crisis and its excesses have spurned alternative banking initiatives. One of them is ethical banking, which stands for total transparency and invests only in the real economy.
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Think Tank
Lessons To Learn From China's Not-So-Big Spenders
about 1 hour ago
What is the Big Idea? In a recent trip to a Costco in Manhattan, shoppers were seen pushing around large shopping carts filled with items like family-sized jars of mayonnaise and bulging packs of fluffy, colorful tube socks. Moms navigated congested aisles with their screaming children and ... Read More
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IdeaFeed
Women Would Lead a More Peaceful World
about 16 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? Were more women in positions of political power, the Earth would be a more peaceful place, says former secretary of defense Joseph Nye. Referencing Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's latest book, Nye says women's evolutionary role in society has emphasized skills ... Read More
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Lessons To Learn From China's Not-So-Big Spenders
about 1 hour ago
What is the Big Idea? In a recent trip to a Costco in Manhattan, shoppers were seen pushing around large shopping carts filled with items like family-sized jars of mayonnaise and bulging packs of fluffy, colorful tube socks. Moms navigated congested aisles with their screaming children and ... Read More
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Is Kim Jong-un Dead?
2 days ago
On China's microblogging site Weibo, rumors of Kim Jong-un's death surfaced earlier today when bloggers posted that he was assassinated in Beijing. Media outlets have yet to issue any official reports, but the rumors have spread to Twitter and they are ripe for punny jokes. Gawker was one of the ... Read More
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Is the U.S. Still the "Land of the Free?"
13 days ago
What's the Big Idea? Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... Immigration is an integral part of the story Americans tell themselves about who they are. A paper in the Journal of Politics found that more than 90% of Americans believe that just thinking of ... Read More
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Julian Assange To Host Talk Show On Russia Today
17 days ago
Julian Assange: Establishment outsider. Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Talk show host? Apparently so. The Australian founder of controversial website WikiLeaks will be at the helm of "The World Tomorrow," a series comprised of 10 interviews with "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries," to ... Read More
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The Humble Beginnings of China's Economy
21 days ago
What is the Big Idea? It turns out that ground zero for China's economic boom was in Xiaogang, a small, rural farming village in the Anhui Province. On the night of Nov. 24, 1978, farmers from 18 households in this village drafted and signed a secret document that changed the way their ... Read More
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Income Disparity Tops the List of Global Risks
21 days ago
Severe income disparity and fiscal imbalances are the biggest threats to globalization, according to the 2012 Global Risks report released last week. The content of the report will be on the agenda for the annual World Economic Forum taking place in Davos on January 25-29. The findings, which ... Read More
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The Cyberspace Conundrum
21 days ago
China and Russia made the news recently for their relentless cyberattacks on US cyber systems. Earlier this month, viruses originating from these countries are blamed for the theft of personal banking information belonging to students and faculty members at the City College of San Francisco ... Read More
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Derivatives Lay at Heart of Debate Over Voluntary or Involuntary Greek Default
26 days ago
In April of 2010 I wrote my first blog about Greece in which I suggested that €30 billion would not solve or even impact the Greek problems. In that same letter I suggested three possible courses Europe, the IMF, and the rest of the world might take; the third being the illusionary game played by ... Read More
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How to Donate Your Money Wisely
28 days ago
Two articles published last week - one in the Global Post and one in the New York Times - presented conflicting messages on the effects of aid money in the developing world. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof fielded readers’ questions about charitable giving. The questions were ... Read More
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