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Remarks by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At The Center for Economic Policy Studies and on the occasion of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey February 24, 2006It is a great pleasure for me to return to Princeton today, to see so many friends and former colleagues, and to help celebrate the

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AS TECHNOLOGY executives go, Michael Dell is not, you might say, as colourful as some of his peers. Larry Ellison of Oracle has his huge new yacht and his fighter jet; Jeff Bezos of Amazon is funding a space-rocket start-up; Bill Gates of Microsoft has his enormous, high-tech house and a penchant for Leonardo manuscripts; Steve Jobs of Apple somehow combines counter-cultural cool with business

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TENDING pumpkins and hauling bricks in the Gobi desert as a young man, Weijian Shan kept recalling a line from the Chinese poet, Li Bai: “There must be a use for someone like myself.” At the time, that did not seem obvious: banished there from Beijing during the Cultural Revolution when he was 15, Mr Shan spent six years in a poor farming village doing hard manual labour with little hope of

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America's second-biggest fast-food group is as successful as it is little knownIT IS one of the biggest companies in one of the biggest industries in America. Its brand names litter the highways and high streets of the world. From its modest base in Louisville, Kentucky, it oversees the opening of three new restaurants, one of them in China, every day. Last year it earned pre-tax profits of $1

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Can K.Y. Lee succeed in creating a Taiwanese global brand?IF CHINA is the workshop of the world, Taiwan is its technological design studio. The island nation of some 23m people makes three-quarters of the world's notebook computers, two-thirds of its liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and 80% of its personal digital assistants. It is home to some of the world's biggest semiconductor makers.

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IN THE nearly three years since Hu Jintao assumed the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, his image has changed markedly. Mr Hu was once seen by many as a potential liberal reformer—admittedly an assessment drawn from limited evidence. Now, he is widely regarded as a conservative authoritarian. Many Hu-watchers had seized on signs that he might be determined to open up China's secretive

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The Scots go a-huntingAug 18th 2005 From The Economist Global AgendaRoyal Bank of Scotland is leading a $3.1 billion investment to take a minority stake in Bank of China. The deal is risky given the parlous state of the country’s banking system. But the pitfalls may be exaggeratedReutersONCE again, China’s booming economy, personal savings of $1.5 trillion and ever-strengthening consumerism have

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Adam SegalFrom Foreign Affairs, November/December 2004Summary: For 50 years, the United States has maintained its economic edge by being better and faster than any other country at inventing and exploiting new technologies. Today, however, its dominance is starting to slip, as Asian countries pour resources into R&D and challenge America's traditional role in the global economy.Adam Segal is

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James F. Hoge, Jr.From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004Summary: Global power shifts happen rarely and are even less often peaceful. Washington must take heed: Asia is rising fast, with its growing economic power translating into political and military strength. The West must adapt -- or be left behind.James F. Hoge, Jr. is Editor of Foreign Affairs. This article is adapted from a lecture given

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A Trade War with China?Neil C. HughesFrom Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005Article preview: first 500 of 4,292 words total.Summary: With China's economic clout growing rapidly, Americans are accusing Beijing of every offense from currency manipulation to crooked trade policies. None of these charges has much merit, but they have increased the probability of a U.S.-Chinese trade war that would do

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Laurie GarrettFrom Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005Summary: Since it first emerged in 1997, avian influenza has become deadlier and more resilient. It has infected 109 people and killed 59 of them. If the virus becomes capable of human-to-human transmission and retains its extraordinary potency, humanity could face a pandemic unlike any ever witnessed.Laurie Garrett is Senior Fellow for Global

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The Alibaba deal ends Yahoo's independent China operationsWeb search giant Yahoo has paid $1bn (£556m) for a stake in China's biggest e-commerce firm, Alibaba.com.The US company will now hold a 40% stake - and 35% of the votes - in the Chinese firm, which runs the country's biggest auction and trading sites.The investment positions Yahoo to compete with world auction leader eBay in a key

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China appears to be on the road of currency liberalisationChina has revealed for the first time which international currencies it uses to measure its own yuan currency by.The US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the South Korean won dominate a basket of currencies introduced last month after China revalued the yuan.China's currency had been pegged at 8.28 against the dollar for a decade, but

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The first 787 Dreamliner should be in service for the 2008 Olympics.Boeing has agreed to sell 42 of its new 787 Dreamliner planes to four Chinese airlines in a deal worth $5bn (£2.8bn).The US manufacturer has been in talks with a number of Chinese airlines since January when it agreed an outline deal to supply 60 planes to China.Monday's agreement comprises sales to Air China, China Eastern

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Oil price climb continues apaceA major oil pipeline in eastern India was attacked by rebel groups. Oil prices have continued their latest surge, climbing above $64 a barrel in Asian electronic trading on widespread security and supply concerns.The price of a barrel of US light sweet crude, which closed at a $63.94 high on Monday, rose 33 cents to $64.27.The recent price surge has been driven by

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Perils at the pumpAug 11th 2005 From The Economist Global AgendaOil prices hit yet another record this week, on fears of political instability in the Middle East and refining problems in America. So far, the world economy has managed to chug along without much ill effect. But how long can consumers go on paying ever more at the pump without cutting back elsewhere? And why aren’t high prices

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That Hissing Sound By PAUL KRUGMANPublished: August 8, 2005This is the way the bubble ends: not with a pop, but with a hiss.Housing prices move much more slowly than stock prices. There are no Black Mondays, when prices fall 23 percent in a day. In fact, prices often keep rising for a while even after a housing boom goes bust.Skip to next paragraphSo the news that the U.S. housing bubble is over

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Baidu Searches for SuccessStanding in the Way:Google's Ambitions, A Regulatory MazeBy REBECCA BUCKMAN and GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALAugust 9, 2005; Page B7Hong Kong -- Behind the euphoria over Chinese Web outfit Baidu.com Inc.'s stock-market debut is a company that operates a lot like Google Inc. -- but could face some uniquely Chinese hurdles as it tries to

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The Ghost of NetscapeBy RICH KARLGAARD August 9, 2005; Page A10What a short, strange trip it's been.Ten years ago today, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia died of a massive heart attack. His last words were rumored to be: "Netscape opened at WHAT?"We all felt the shock. Morgan Stanley's top tech banker Frank Quattrone, a poor south Philadelphia kid with a gambler's heart, had priced Netscape's IPO

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THE fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunchers and then moves on. -- 1916 by Carl Sandburg

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Tonight at noonSupermarkets will advertise 3rd EXTRA on everythingTonight at noonChildren from happy families will be sent to live in ahomeElephants will tell each other human jokesAmerica will declare peace on RussiaWorld War I generals will sell poppies in the streets onNovember 11thThe first daffodils of autumn will appearWhen the leaves fall upwards to the treesTonight at noonPigeons will

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