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When this crisis began you talked a lot about these larger issues, tackling corruption and tax evasion. And then there was this demand from the markets for immediate cuts. Did that force you to abandon efforts on some of the bigger structural changes? What the markets were saying is we've heard this, we don't believe you. Greece has lost its credibility. What I was saying all along is we have to bring back our credibility. That did in fact work. Credibility for Greece has come back. Of course, those are short-term changes. We have to get down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with George Papandreou | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...calls the shots in Islamabad. That may no longer be such a bad thing. Kayani's visit comes in the wake of two hard-fought campaigns by his troops against local militants and the capture of assorted Afghan Taliban leaders on Pakistani soil. The general is confident enough to demand the release of funds and weaponry held up by a skeptical Washington. Now he might get his wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

Crimson Cash first entered the Square in 2003, when five local businesses began accepting the debit system by student demand...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Cash To Expand in Square | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...employment history would no longer correlate with the significance of their finances, but instead result from a process of an open contest among all socioeconomic classes. Society can and should remove structural and economic barriers to employment, and firms will have no choice but to survive the increased demand on their resources. If the U.S. eliminates such obstacles, it will move one step closer to making RFK’s question a relic of the past...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Pay Is the Thing | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...agenda this week should be starting to retire the forum we now use for engaging China - something called the Strategic and Economic Dialogue - which is sort of like an annual parent-teacher conference with China. The slow-moving dialogue drives issues at a pace largely irrelevant to what they demand and removes the chance for spontaneity. The U.S.-China joint reaction to the financial crisis is a better model: it was and is informal and constant, based on working groups that evolve and move at adjustable paces. Keeping this organized will demand a single figure in Washington who can handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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