a)Free trade will never get us to the promised land. Quite the opposite, actually:
b) We can't grow ourselves out of debt, no matter what the Federal Reserve does | Charles Eisenstein - https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/commentisfree/2012/sep/03/debt-federal-reserve-fixation-on-growth
c) Ever since the term ‘BRIC’ was born in 2001, the bloc has grown rapidly – now accounting for almost a quarter of the world’s total economic output. Nevertheless, as the eurozone crisis has shown, the bloc is not immune to a weakening global economy; and the outlook for the BRICs is now uncertain.
Read "Bearish BRICs: Have The BRIC Nations Lived Up To The Hype?" at http://bit.ly/NJuXG5
d) Ireland's aggressive tackling of its fiscal problems lifts hopes for recovery: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/46287280-f5de-11e1-bf76-00144feabdc0.html
e)French Banks Say Adieu to Financing Asian Trade
The banker on the other end of the line sounded anxious. It was the morning after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008, and he was calling from Hong Kong with stunning news. "The ships are not moving," he said. "Not moving." http://on.wsj.com/PXlrO5
