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...defense and security. Consumer confidence will be vulnerable to further attacks - and higher interest rates won?t help. The business cycle will be back, and the recovery will someday come - but what kind of a recovery is still an open question. You don?t want to trade a V-shape...
...While no one can predict the precise shape of the final legislation, Banks believes there are a few items assured of easy passage - and others doomed to the cutting room floor. "I think the proposals include some that should have been brought forward before this series of attacks," says Banks, "including those dealing with advances in technology and surveillance. And then there are some that should never be brought up here in the United States, including the idea of indefinite detention...
...future of Afghanistan had not been much of a concern in the West before September 11. But the campaign against Al Qaida has become, necessarily, a campaign to overthrow the Taliban, and that draws Washington and its allies inexorably into the battle to shape the wounded country's political future. Remaking Afghanistan may yet turn out to be the mother of all "nation-building" exercises - a form of intervention that sends chills through Washington's national security circles. But as complex and daunting as the challenge may be, it may also be an unavoidable aspect of "draining the swamp" that...
...covered by a network I owned, and we are still growing 2001 earnings by 11%," General Electric's new chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, told an analyst meeting in New York City on Friday, after he slightly pared the company's growth outlook. "I think we're in pretty good shape. We're looking at this unmistakable tragedy as a time of strength for the company." In the next few months, Americans will learn whether the same can be said for the economy...
...responsible when a U.S. corporation runs a sweatshop in the Philippines or crushes efforts of workers to organize in Singapore. It never occurs to us that when the U.S. (with 5% of the world's population and 25% of the wealth) manages over the course of several decades to shape global trade policies that increase the disparity between rich and poor countries, this directly produces some of the suffering in the lives of 2 billion people who live in poverty, 1 billion of whom struggle with malnutrition, homelessness and poverty-related diseases...