Salient to Investors: Swindon manager Paolo Di Canio says: The new generation has grown up with the idea that you are intelligent and more clever than others if you benefit from a bad action or situation. In football, we will not see many acts of good sportsmanship in the future.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: History shows that presidents’ most ambitious ventures often create as many problems as they solve. Barbara Perry at the University of Virginia said presidents act first and think later about the long-term consequences. best packages Obama’s long-run budget forecasts call for exploding deficits beyond the customary 10-year planning period
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Investors, economists and policy makers are starting to warn Germany is turning a blind eye to its own weaknesses. Irwin Collier at Freie Universitaet said it is clear things have to change at home too. The DAX Index rose 29 percent in 2012, its best in 9 years. Juergen
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jay Schwister at Baird Advisors said Pimco underestimated how big the policy response would be and what type of positive impact it would have on financial markets, despite the new normal they forecast is playing out. Saumil Parikh at Pimco said policy distortions cannot continue indefinitely, so 2013
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: At the current pace, the US population will grow by 7.3 percent during the decade, the lowest level since the 1930s. William Frey at Brookings said mountain states in the West were among the fastest-growing places. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-31/u-s-on-pace-for-slowest-decade-of-population-growth-since-1930s.html. Click here to receive free email alerts of articles as soon as they
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: China’s new elite class, known as princelings, is fueling public anger over unequal accumulation of wealth, unfair access to opportunity and exploitation of privilege. The Immortals’ grandchildren are players in private equity amid China’s integration into the global economy. 26 ran or held top positions in state- owned companies that dominate
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mohamed El-Erian is to be appointed head of the US global development council. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-24/obama-picks-el-erian-to-lead-global-development-council.html. Click here to receive free email alerts of articles as soon as they are posted.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria writes: Pete Peterson says the current deficit is not the problem, and is even in favor of additional stimulus spending. His overriding concern has always been the the massive structural deficits we face as baby boomers start retiring. In 1900, 1 in 25 Americans was
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Average incomes for individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult population’s total drop, since December 2007, while their unemployment rate remains one-half to 1 percent above the national figure. Cliff Zukin at Rutgers said generation Y will be permanently depressed and on a lower
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: By 2015, firearm fatalities will probably exceed traffic fatalities for the first time. 85 Americans are shot dead daily, 53 of them suicides. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports motor-vehicle deaths dropped 22 percent from 2005 to 2010, gun fatalities are rising again after a low point
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