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...growth and tighter credit are already beginning to pinch. Merrill Lynch expects GDP growth in Asia (excluding Japan) of 7.7% this year, the slowest pace since 2003. Next year could be worse if the U.S. enters a full-blown recession. "There are few signs as yet of the damaging effect but it will show up soon enough," says Ramon Navaratnam, a former senior official in the Malaysian Finance Ministry. "We cannot escape the contagion...
...Palin Effect I must confess I'd been struggling to understand the recent surge in the popularity of Sarah Palin until Joe Klein put it all into sepia-toned perspective [Sept. 22]. I realized that her appeal reflects a wistful desire for an American abstraction, a wholesome place in our memory that is no more - and perhaps never was. We want to be reminded of who and what we think we were, not who we are. But yearning for our past, real or imagined, will not bring it back. And I fear that after the tribulations of the past eight...
That may be because McCain took a frenetic, borderline erratic approach to the crisis, thrusting himself into the negotiations to very little effect. First he announced that he would suspend his campaign to salvage the bailout talks and would skip the first presidential debate unless negotiators hammered out a deal--although he didn't seem to suspend much, and the talks had been going pretty well without him. They blew up only after he dragged the circus of presidential politics back to Washington and left the impression that he agreed with House Republicans who opposed the deal. Then McCain announced...
Mayer omits to draw attention to the facts: first, that the United Kingdom is effectively governed by the European Union in that about 70% of the laws now enacted by our Parliament are required to comply with the European Union's directives; and, secondly, that our subordination to the European Union will be complete when the provisions of the Lisbon treaty are brought progressively into effect in the next few years. The Conservatives have consistently furthered the interests of the European Union in complete disregard of the interests of our own country. Mr. Cameron conforms to that Conservative policy. Even...
...Palin Effect I must confess I'd been struggling to understand the recent surge in the popularity of Sarah Palin until Joe Klein put it all into sepia-toned perspective [Sept. 22]. I realized that her appeal reflects a wistful desire for an abstraction, a wholesome place in our memory that is no more - and perhaps never was. We want to be reminded of who and what we think we were, not who we are. But yearning for our past, real or imagined, will not bring it back. And I fear that after the tribulations of the past eight years...