Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The dollar has tanked this year, though the drop has been fairly steady and orderly. That may be about to change. |
The Asia-Pacific's top economic club faces intense debate about who else can join its ranks, with India among the nations knocking at the door when a moratorium on new entrants expires next year. |
Monday, November 16, 2009
President Barack Obama had a successful first encounter with a jittery Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo on Friday. > Joe Hung |
Kuomintang (KMT) legislator Wu Yu-sheng formally apologized to the public at a news conference on Nov. 13 for his extramarital affair with Rebecca Sun, a beautiful and elegant piano teacher. |
Our company, J.P. Morgan Chase, employs more than 220,000 people, serves well over 100 million customers, lends hundreds of millions of dollars each day and has operations in nearly 100 countries. |
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface and announced, “We came in peace for all mankind,” it marked a fundamental break with the long history of human exploration. |
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I gave a mid-term examination this past Wednesday morning in a course called “Introduction to Literature.” When I put that test in my students' hands, I had no idea I'd be telling this story now. |
Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has just proposed financial reform legislation that is enormous even by the bloated standards of our contemporary Congress. |
The world may not end two years from now, despite Internet predictions and this week's blockbuster disaster movie, “2012.” |
When U.S. President Barack Obama sits down with his Chinese counterpart next week to talk climate change, it is highly unlikely they will craft a definitive plan to tackle global warming. |




