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This Generation's Sputnik Moment

Marc Van Ameringen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marc Van Ameringen

Around the world, food prices are surging, with protests breaking out across Northern Africa. And against this backdrop, the scourge of malnutrition continues to ravage more than one billion people.

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Davos Talks Focus On Uneven Economic Recovery

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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DAVOS, Switzerland — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a broad riposte to free-market capitalism, told a room full of international bankers a...

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Stiglitz Tells Davos: Bankers Created "Negative Value" For Society

bloomberg.com | Jacqueline Simmons and Ian Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bankers created "negative value" with innovations such as mortgages that homeowners couldn't afford, said Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, who is sp...

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Davos 2010 LIVE: Video, News, Twitter Updates In Real-Time From World Economic Forum

Posted 05.25.2011

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Davos 2010 is being held by the World Economic Forum (WEF), a Geneva-based non-profit organization, from Jan. 27 to Jan 31. The annual event in Dav...

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