On Friday, economists expect the Labor Department to report the economy added 181,000 jobs in January, up from the disappointing 74,000 scored in December. That’s about half the pace needed to bring unemployment down to acceptable levels and motivate the
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The IOC has been urged not to pay sports to attend the Olympics during talks on its relations with North American professional leagues. The NHL has yet to commit to the Olympics beyond Sochi. Major League
Well, this isn’t creepy at all: Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business
Let’s put two recent news items together and see if we can envision a way to develop and deliver medical miracles. First, let’s start with the inspiring saga of Sgt. Cory Remsburg and his determination to overcome grievous war injuries.
Live, from New York, it’s the Sports Hangover. I’ll be hitting the Meadowlands, Madison Square Garden, and the Prudential Center for NFL and UFC events this week. That’s my reward for suffering through the weirdest weekend of the sports year,
One of the biggest bond traders in the country and a “big data” expert told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that the “nightmare” called Obamacare is going to destroy the Democrats in 2014. Chriss Street posits that despite predicting
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in New Delhi Saturday to push for closer commercial and strategic ties with India, as Tokyo seeks to offset Beijing’s growing regional might. Since coming to power in 2012 Abe has trotted the globe,
Fear is back in the market. Investors are worried about slower economic growth in China, a gloomier outlook for U.S. corporate profits and an end to easy money policies in the United States and Europe. They’re also fretting over country-specific
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine anti-government protesters issue ultimatum after five are killed Iran says it’s not dismantling any nuclear components China says that war with Japan is inevitable because they hate each other Ukraine anti-government protesters issue
China, the largest foreign buyer of U.S. Treasury debt, increased its holdings by $12.2 billion in November. This represents almost a 1% increase in its total debt holdings to $1.32 trillion, a record level. The second largest foreign holder of
An article in TheWeek delineates how Japan, which has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, is facing an imminent population decline. The population in Japan reached a 2007 peak of 128 million, but it has been dropping
And we learn more about the most powerful woman in the world. Janet Yellen has been under wraps for some time. She did not want to give any interviews, since an unguarded remark might endanger Senate confirmation. During Senate hearings,
On Tuesday, the Commerce Department is expected to report the deficit on international trade in goods and services was $40.0 billion in November, up from $24.9 billion when the economic recovery began. The Obama Administration’s ill-conceived energy policies and appeasement
(AP) Voldemort invoked in China-Japan feud over shrineTOKYOAs if Harry Potter isn’t popular enough, the evil Lord Voldemort from British author J.K. Rowling’s best-selling children’s series has been dragged into the feud between Japan and China over the Yasukuni war
By the time the Klingons arrive to lay waste in glorious battle we may have fallen to the Chinese in economic battle. It begins with one word, debt. The current US National Debt stands at $17,314,687,938,331 and growing every second.
Amid a $35 billion effort to clean up the damage wrought by nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is recruiting homeless people and paying them minimum wage to help. They are being paid to work in “an area
The Chinese foreign ministry announced today that it does not have any intention of allowing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe into their nation again after the latter visited a shrine honoring Japan’s dead during World War II. According to the
(AP) China says Abe not welcome after war shrine visitBy GILLIAN WONGAssociated PressBEIJINGChina’s Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Japan’s prime minister of hypocrisy and said he would not be welcome in China after he visited a shrine honoring Japan’s war
(AP) AP IMPACT: The world braces for retirement crisisBy PAUL WISEMAN, DAVID MCHUGH and ELAINE KURTENBACHAP Business WritersWASHINGTONA global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages. Spawned years before the Great Recession and the financial meltdown in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Japan’s PM visits Yasukuni shrine, infuriating Chinese and Koreans Israel to announce new settlements along with Palestinian prisoner release Pakistan protesters block Nato supply route after new drone strikes Japan’s PM visits Yasukuni shrine,
Questlove and Top Chef star Padma Lakshmi are both taking sensitivity shrapnel after sending out social media messages deemed offensive to the Japanese. The gossip blog Oh No They Didn’t cited the duo, along with his manager, for an Instagram
President Raúl Castro announced today that his government will pass laws in March targeted at attracting foreign investment in Cuba, the latest of several similar reforms aimed at opening up Cuba’s market without threatening the authoritative nature of the Castro
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES “On the ninth of my planned 15 bomb runs, at 1,200 feet, an enemy antiaircraft shell exploded in the cockpit. Instinctively, I pulled back on the stick to gain altitude. Then I passed out. When
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China denounces Japan’s planned military expansion Another anti-polio worker shot in Pakistan North Korea threatens South with ‘merciless attack’ via fax machine China denounces Japan’s planned military expansion Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (BBC) China
(AP) China lashes out at Japan’s new defense planBEIJINGChina’s military lashed out Saturday at Japan’s plans to boost defense spending, accusing Tokyo of raising regional tensions under the pretext of safeguarding national security. China “resolutely opposes” the five-year defense plan
