Not exact matches
Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor at the Reserve Bank of India, speaks
about how a potential
trade war will impact the world's second most populous nation.
Speaking at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, Speth said it was impossible to be concerned
about the prospect of a brewing
trade war at this stage because «hardly any» information on
how it would play out was available.
But given the stock market's recent erratic behavior and concerns
about the impact a
trade war could have on the economy, you may at least want to set aside some time to see where your retirement plans stand and
how well they might hold up if the prospects for the market and the economy turn south.
Mid-month, the USTR is holding a hearing for the public airing of views
about the Section 301 remedies, where it will be impressed upon the administration
how costly a
trade war would be.
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation
about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»);
about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway;
about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin;
about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every
war, every execution, every transaction in the slave
trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea;
about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings;
about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.
Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave
trade felt bad
about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo
War, the Carolinas, and so on.
Two days a week, we've
traded in lessons
about World
War II for discussions
about how to become local civic activists.
In no particular order: Forecast; The Storytelling Animal:
How Stories Make Us Human; Investing: The Last Liberal Art; The Signal and the Noise; The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing; Mastermind:
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes; The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World
War II in Europe; Risk; Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World; and
Trading Bases: A Story
About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order).
But given the stock market's recent erratic behavior and concerns
about the impact a
trade war could have on the economy, you may at least want to set aside some time to see where your retirement plans stand and
how well they might hold up if the prospects for the market and the economy turn south.