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The basketball and hip-hop culture fusion born in 1984 that is known now as The “Dunkadelic-Era” In America, 1984-Present. The “Dunkadelic-Era” is celebrating its 25th Anniversary during the year 2009 (1984-2009).
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
In an attempt to mend tenions between city and suburb, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, unveiled his massive urban planning effort last week. Will “Grand Paris” serve as a […]
For decades, the American government has battled gang violence. Now, with an intensifying drug war along the Mexican-U.S. border, academics and think tanks are studying these deeply-rooted criminal entities and […]
Big Think presents a new series from leading global economists: When Will the Recession End? A death knell for investing, the end of easy credit, the emergence of a regulatory […]
The Global Billionaires Club may be getting smaller by the minute, but there are still pockets of heavy growth. For example, Mexican drug lords are doing well. That’s why Forbes […]
Ricky Gervais doesn’t do Twitter as he so glibly told Big Think this week. John McCain’s tweets can’t seem to get beyond his ranting crusade against earmarks — and science. […]
As Noah Feldman shows us in “A Prison of Words,” his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, “refinements” filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety […]
It’s been a week since the Obama Administration first announced its strategy to stabilize U.S. banks by establishing an orderly plan for them to unwind the so-called “toxic assets” currently […]
Despite the recent Gaza conflict and the subsequent media backlash against Israel, the land of milk and honey has found an unlikely cultural and socio-political marriage with Latin America. Don’t […]
Both middle class students wishing to forego the life-ruining nature of college loans and wealthier students who find they are suddenly unable to afford neither the Ivies nor private colleges […]
It was a hot few weeks for global warming deniers like George Will and Matt Drudge. That is until a winter storm slammed the East Coast and buried any chance […]
Gordon Brown is in America this week meeting with Barack Obama and the L.A. Times says the embattled British Prime Minister is using the trip to “present a united front […]
More evidence has emerged to charge Israel with deploying experimental and illegal weapons during the 22-day attack on Gaza last month. Although the use of white phosphorus aroused a short-lived […]
The future Harvard MBA best case study of Communist China took down speculators!
What next?
Lesson we learnt (Ask Donald Tsang, he may come to NY soon!): No major regulation changed (So Lehman Brothers debacle or may be SWINDLE happened in HK again in 2008), No transformation, innovation and improvement of the industry after intervention!
Over the last few weeks, the economy may have a turned a corner. After several years in which public confidence has greatly exceeded any reasonable level based on underlying economic […]
Americans first heard about the “march toward socialism” as the financial crisis reached a fever pitch last fall. Since then, the rhetoric on socialism’s return has grown central to political […]
AIG Financial Products founder Howard Sosin on why the government needs to assume temporary ownership of failed banks.
The year 2000 was not a good time to be young and in charge, particularly in New Jersey. It was October of that year when Union City mayor Rudy Garcia […]
Low pricing and advertising revenue brought news to the American public175 years ago. With little variation, it’s the news model we’ve had for almost 200 years. Today, the same funding […]
Yesterday, Obama met his first stage of exchanging ideas with 34 leaders of Latin American and Caribbean (Conference in Trinidad and Tobago)
What happens when you type your name into Google? How about when you click the ‘images’, ‘news’ and ‘blogs’ buttons? If you don’t know the answer, it may be time […]
Prof. Krugman VS Tim Geithner, To Whom will be right (part II).rn rn I hate to see Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ can even figure out a way to home deliver its newspaper to rural area, that NYT CANNOT! That worries me, in NYT almost every day it seems to me that the Columnists, in NYT write articles that aim at teaching other how to save the world. In realty they can not save my beloved (may be not his!) NYT from depression! How can make me believe their writing?rn rn rnrnrnrnrn rn
Do Not Wake up The Red Dragon, communist CHINA.
Every morning, I walk out the door of my K street condo and hook a left at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on 12th Street. Like clockwork, a kaleidoscope of […]
It has become fashionable to castigate Twitter – the microblogging service – as an expression of rampant narcissism. Yet, narcissists are verbose and they do not take kindly to limitations imposed on them by third parties.
On Feb. 27, 09, Prof. Krugman in his NYT column stated that “ this budget looks very, very good”, that worries me!rnrn