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Will Rouhani bring a tectonic shift to Iran’s political landscape? Nile Bowie discusses the challenges and controversies of recent Iranian political developments with award-winning journalist Kourosh Ziabari: NB: Hassan Rouhani, a reform-minded moderate cleric and former nuclear negotiator under President Khatami, will be Iran’s new president.
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India Housing Bubble Still Expanding This is a guest post from by Deepak Shenoy, an economic blogger at Capital Mind in India.
The Beckman Institute at the Uinversity of Illinois was named after Arnold Beckman, so that was a false alarm.Petr Beckmann was quite a character though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Beckmann"He defected to the United States in 1963 and became a Professor (later, Emeritus) of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. In the United States, he became acquainted with novelist Ayn Rand, a contributing editor to a publication devoted to her ideas, The Intellectual Activist, and a speaker at The Thomas Jefferson School, an intellectual conference of similar purpose."" He wrote more than 60 scientific papers and eight technical books. Dr
My friend "BC" says How convenient, otherwise real GDP would have printed at 0.8%, prices constant. Yet, the yoy rate of real final sales per capita is below 1% for the second quarter in a row, whereas the second quarter annualized rate is near contracting. Had the deflator been reported at the rate in Q1, the yoy and 2-qtr. annualized real final sales per capita rates would have been reported as contracting
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California passed Proposition 99 in 2008.
Slight expansion of sales recorded in July Slowest fall in employment for over a year Further reduction in purchasing activity Summary French retailers signalled a return to growth in sales during July. Although modest, the month-on-month increase was the first recorded since March 2012. Sales were also marginally higher on an annual basis
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