The current-account deficit is running at record levels, requiring as much
as $2 billion a day in inflows from foreign investors to finance it. Yet
the rewards for such investments are suddenly far smaller than they were a
year or two ago.
U.S. dollar loses its appeal as world's 'safe
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Once, the tech industry was a lobbying lightweight in Washington. Then
Congress tried to attack stock options -- and high-tech learned how to
be a force to be reckoned with on Capitol Hill.
By Marilyn Geewax
WASHINGTON BUREAU
Greetings Economists,
Interest in Emotions has been on the rise for a decade in a variety of
fields. Information Technology research at some schools like MIT have been
trying to find methods for directly showing emotions with software methods.
In philosophy, Martha Nussbaum, wrote a major tome on
