This is my first feature post for Inside, and I’m going to reveal the unique lifestyles harboring in each of Asia’s six most famous cities. Check out the different mainstreams, cultures and nightlife they have in store, and what you need in order to

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Could this science fiction series Babylon 5, created by J. Michael Straczynski, brilliantly written and directed, with inspired casting, and production, be regarded as signs and portents for the current political, economic and social factors current

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As the title suggest there is a reason to be short investment banks and its not just because the bonus pool at Goldman Sachs is bigger than the market cap at Bear Stearns. No the reason is in regards to the blog that Blograters highlighted today.

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The OLPC Initiative has just received the rights to EA's original SimCity game, to include on their laptops that they are releasing for children in the "developing world" so they can learn what it takes to "start, build and manage a city, taking

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The US is no longer the world's economic powerhouse. Everyone from super-models to billionaires are worried about the strength of the dollar. The Fed chairman has been called 'a complete fool who doesn't understand the economy' and even OPEC is threatening to ditch the dollar.

If the OPEC gets its wish, the dollar's heydays are over.

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With the Japanese government about to sit down to start the first ordinary Diet session, it's interesting to see the topics they're not talking about. Important things like pensions and the future economic security of the nation are all taboo as it could potentially lead to a loss of confidence in the current government.

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On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party’s policy agenda. He’s done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governm

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We already know about how the Democrats are hoping for failure in Iraq because they have their political futures riding on it, but this article sheds some light on a truly insidious hope for economic failure in the United States by the likes of George Soros. The title of the article, “Soros bets on U.S. Economic Collapse”, should tell you all

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A 100 million dollar sports complex in West Olive, Michigan could only mean good things in my opinion.

The sports complex would sit on the east side of US 31 between Stanton and Filmore. It would make use of 100 acres of land, and support 1000 jobs.

Western Michigan sure could use a boost as far as development goes. The

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Today the House and President Bush agreed on an economic stimulus package. This package includes tax rebates. This is the first thing that the House has gotten right since Democrats took control in 2006.

There is one aspect to this that I find interesting. For years we have heard from Democrats that the Bush tax cuts need t

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At the Republican debate on Thursday, John McCain was asked a question about the President's Working Group on Financial Markets--by Ron Paul. McCain looked as though he didn't have a clue. He sputtered on for a while about the kind of advisers he'd use for economic matters. A YouTube producer put together a video poking f

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The occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of the ill-famed Mendiola Massacre compelled me to check at the state of the government’s agrarian reform program...

Agrarian reform in general, as I wrote in a previous blog entry, “facilitates the diffusion of rural unrest, enables the peasantry greater interaction in the econom

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On the news: The former president of Indonesia, Suharto, has just passed away today. He ruled over Indonesia for 32 years. In the most of the part of his office period, he has developed Indonesia a lot, but sadly he didn’t end it very well. He tempted to misuse his power and influence to be consumed by greed, corrupted

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Some days ago, the World Economic Forum ended its discussion about the future of the world. The question "what to do to change the world?" was answered by many economical and political leaders. In fact not only leaders had the opportunity to participate in the discussion, but literally everybody. The davos channel

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Governor Lynch,

 I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you. Yes, thank you for finally realizing that last year’s budget was irresponsible. Of course, instead of admitting that you were not fiscally responsible last year you decided to blame the “national economic downturn”, in other words,

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