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...Bush says that he will not abandon his Iraq policy unless General David Petraeus declares it a failure in September. Regardless of the truth, I already know the basis of the general's report. With his reputation and career at stake, Petraeus will say exactly what the President wants to hear: The surge is making progress and requires more time and more troops for success. Those familiar with big corporations know that the CEO rarely has a clear understanding of what is happening in his company. With reputations and careers at stake, a story becomes rosier as it passes...
...country's poorest regions, is plunging into the middle of a takeover fight for one of Europe's biggest and most venerable banks. Teaming up with Singapore's state-owned investment vehicle, Temasek - which will invest an initial $1.9 billion - CDB will fork over $3 billion for a stake in Barclays, the British bank now locked in a struggle with a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to acquire Amsterdam-based ABN Amro. If Barclays' $94 billion cash-and-stock bid prevails against RBS's $98 billion offer, CDB will boost its stake in Barclays to $13.5 billion...
...billion worth of goods to the rest of the world last year) and by attracting huge amounts of foreign direct investment, mostly from manufacturers taking advantage of its low labor costs. That is now changing rapidly. A month ago, Beijing's State Investment Company bought a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group just before the American private-equity giant went public (an investment that is so far more than $300 million underwater). This and the CDB stake in Barclays are the most high-profile foreign investments China has made since the oil firm CNOOC tried and failed...
This measured, strategic-stake approach may help Chinese firms avoid the disaster that befell many Japanese companies when they went on their own foreign spending spree in the late 1980s. The Japanese not only met considerable public opposition in the U.S., but in several instances, vastly overpaid for glamorous properties such as the Pebble Beach golf course. "I don't expect China to go in for trophy properties," says JPMorgan's Ulrich. "They know the lesson of the Japanese debacle." That said, she concedes, the odds are that Chinese companies will make mistakes of their own, given the sheer volume...
...though, it wasn’t the “how much” that captured my attention, but the “how.” If it’s this difficult to hand out candy to children, what happens when millions of aid dollars are at stake...