2nd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership ForumThursday, November 20, 2008 @ 7:21AM CG/LA Infrastructure LLC, the world leader in strategic infrastructure project identification and development, announced today that $400 billion worth of infrastructure projects, equivalent to 1% of world GDP, will be presented at the 2nd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum.
‘SET in the City’ Offers Gold to Lure Thais to Stocks (Update1)Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 4:38AMNov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand’s stock exchange is offering 1 million baht ($28,478) of prizes, from gold to shares, to lure investors to Asia’s second-cheapest equity market.
Penthouse sale sets new recordThursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:34AMA penthouse has defied the credit crunch to become the first flat in a city to sell for £1,000,000.
The Road to Financial Ruin: We Have to Spend Money NowWednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 9:45AMWhen just about all economists agree, should we rejoice or be scared? During the Weimar Republic, economists at the Reichsbank argued that printing money to finance a war was "exogenous" to the economy and thus not inflationary. Hyperinflation in the ensuing years proved them wrong.
Obama makes climate change pledgeTuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 12:34PMCalling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the US and throughout the world.