GM’s challenge: ‘Reassure the world’ Lindsay Chappell Automotive News March 13, 2014 – 3:13 pm ET General Motors could face a decade of lawsuits and regulatory headaches over its delayed U.S. recall of 1.37 million vehicles with suspected faulty ignition switches. But GM CEO Mary Barra’s more urgent challenge will be convincing the public that […]…
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China’s Search For Resources: A Global Story
When I first started traveling in southern China in 1979, the country was virtually self-contained and self-sufficient. It had very little intercourse with the outside world. But now 35 years later, China’s economic emergence has become a truly global story. China isn’t a regional issue. It has become a global one because the Chinese are […]…
The New York Times Take on Puerto Rico
I wish to congratulate the Times yet again. They are following closer and closer on my heels. I am beginning to feel the competitive pressure! Here they are, just after my previous blog on Puerto Rico: Economy and Crime Spur New Puerto Rican Exodus By LIZETTE ALVAREZ FEB. 8, 2014 Launch media viewer SIGNS OF […]…
Puerto Rico: America’s Greece
I’ve just come back from a few days in Puerto Rico. Somehow I always find myself in the middle of stories. This one is about Puerto Rico’s financial and economic crisis that is in the headlines. The island, a territory of the United States, owes more than it can pay back to financial markets. Standard […]…
Anxiety Rising Over Relations Between Japan and China
I’d like to congratulate Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times for breaking this story only 24 hours after I did. Unfortunately, he had to travel to Davos to figure it out, but I was able to do it from the comfort of my North American regional headquarters: January 27, 2014 Anxiety Rising Over […]…
