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“A GM collapse would mean ``more aid to specific states like Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, and more money into unemployment and extended benefits,'' Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts, said today in an interview. source...

“Howard Archer, an economist at Global Insight, said: "While the sharp cut in interest rates by the Bank of England last week - and the prospect of further substantial reductions to come - will obviously be of some help, it source...

"Income distribution in America is the widest of the 30 countries of the OECD. The top 10% (or decile) of earners have an average $87,257 of disposable income, while those in the bottom decile have $5,819, among the very lowest more...

Future social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. No more logging on to Facebook just to see the “news feed” of updates from your friends; instead it will more...

It was bound to happen. One after another, pieces of software have been moving online in a trend towards “software as a service” (SaaS).[sic] But now the trend has reached the darker corners of the software universe. Computer-security firms say more...

“Details of China’s earthquake are being spread quickly, and the official response has so far been unusually open.”

“But when it comes to immigration they are doing exactly the opposite—trying their best to keep the world's best and brightest from darkening America's doors.”

CONSUMERS everywhere have been merrily spending with their credit cards since the dotcom bust ended in 2003. Americans put most on plastic: on average, each person splashed out $6,700 in 2005, according to Ronald Mann at Foreign Policy magazine. But more...

It was presented as a straightforward case of “hot pursuit”. But the killing at the weekend of a senior guerrilla leader, Raúl Reyes, by the Colombian armed forces, just inside Ecuador, has turned into what could be the closest to more...

A wave of food-price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake. For the first time in 30 years, food protests are erupting in many places at once. Bangladesh is in turmoil; even China more...

Human Rights Watch, an international group, says that ZANU-PF, the ruling party of President Robert Mugabe, has set up torture camps across the country as part of a systematic campaign to intimidate the opposition, which won the parliamentary elections and, more...