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SIOUX CITY -- Occasionally when I read the Business section in The Journal, I feel like a voyeur peeking in on the annals of a crumbling empire.A while back I read the U.S. borrows over $2 billion a day to buy Chinese widgets. China gladly loans us vast sums of money (with interest) to buy their products because they know they're creating a dependency trap. As low-wage foreign labor undercuts our wages, we tend to buy the same cheap Chinese products that are bottoming out our wages. More disturbing is how the massive loans from China help prop up the value of the dollar, making us dangerously vulnerable to inflation.
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So you’re calling the rectors to duty…?
To this end, I was going to invite M.Ö. Then we were going to contact the university rectors to mobilize college students onto the streets. We were going to keep to the same plan in our contacts with the unions. We would have placards hang up on the streets. We were also going to encourage the associations to take reactive action against the government. We were going to stage the plan across the country. The whole plan was going to be called Sarıkız (yellow girl)." Needless to say, Sarıkız was to be a coup d'etat. The İnönü University Senate's decision to postpone the mid-term exams to ensure maximum participation in the April 14 rally recalls the coup plan. Is there any connection between Sarıkız and Demirel's remarks? I don't think that Süleyman Demirel has anything to do with the April 14 plot.
UNCP unveils entrepreneurship center
PEMBROKE - Jim Thomas was working as a private tax attorney in 1983 when a client pushed him to try something different - real estate. Today the Pembroke native owns a company that develops commercial real estate across the country, is traded on NASDAQ and is valued at more than $600 million. Thomas hopes to provide that same push to budding entrepreneurs through a center that bears his family's name - Thomas Family Center for Entrepreneurship. The center, run by The University of North Carolina at Pembroke's School of Business, will provide assistance to small businesses while developing a curriculum of study about entrepreneurship. A dedication ceremony and an open house were held for the COMtech center on Monday during the business school's Entrepreneurship Summit, an all-day program with classes covering different aspects of business growth.
Momentum and talk build over a 'gas OPEC'
Although there is no concrete gas cartel proposal yet for the April Qatar talks, a 'gas OPEC' consortium is on the table. Even if an agreement is not reached in April, the potential for such a cartel threatens the distribution of world power as it stands today.
ISTANBUL - TDN with wire dispatches
Some of the world's leading natural gas exporters intend to reach a final agreement on the creation of a so-called "gas OPEC," reported the Russian English-language online daily news source, Kommersant, yesterday. The consortium of gas-rich countries, including Russia, Iran, Qatar, Venezuela and Algeria, is due to be formally organized in the Qatari capital of Doha on April 9. The meeting of the largely ceremonial group, Gas-Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), takes place amid speculation that gas exporters may form a pricing cartel, often dubbed a "gas OPEC" in a reference to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
ACG Chicago Hosts Annual Market Trends Breakfast Meeting
(openPR) - CHICAGO, April 2, 2007 — On April 13, 2007, more than 250 business and economic leaders from the Greater Chicago area are expected to attend the Annual Market Trends Breakfast Meeting – a comprehensive corporate deal-making event hosted by the Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago). The annual event will take place at The Standard Club and will provide professionals focused on corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) with an opportunity to hear from leading economic and business authorities on the state of the global economy and trends in the local deal-making environment. Carl R. Tannenbaum, group senior vice president and chief economist at LaSalle Bank Corporation, will deliver the opening remarks. He will discuss the state of the local, national and global economy; forecast the remainder of 2007 and beyond; and address factors that may affect the deal-making environment.
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