Art, like the world economy - or rather, corresponding to the world economy - has become divided into "North" and "South". (haves and havenots).
And my point, as you know, I know, is that the -- raising the ceiling, the debt ceiling, is so important because it involves the faith and credit of the United States government as the most powerful economy in the world -- the economy to which the whole world looks for stability.
Nobody is going to get 100 percent of what they want, but let's make sure that middle-class families and the American economy -- and, in fact, the world economy -- aren't adversely impacted because people can't do their jobs.
In the case of the Mazda3 with SkyActiv and I hereby declare a fatwa on that cheesy bit of marketing the pleasures are threefold: First, the car utterly exceeds expectations, insofar as it actually approaches in the real world the fuel-economy numbers ginned up by the Environmental Protection Agency test cycle.
The German economy - the fifth largest economy in the world in PPP terms and Europe's largest - is a leading exporter of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, and household equipment and benefits from a highly skilled labor force.
In the mid-1990s, the world economy was booming, whereas the recent run-up in debt has come during a massive economic recession.
In the emerging-markets crisis that currently threatens the world economy, exchange-rate movements have not been absorbers of shocks but amplifiers and even creators of them.
And I think leaders in the region understand that as China grows, as its economic influence expands, that the expectation is, is that they will be a responsible leader in the world economy -- which is what the United States has tried to do.
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China is the second-largest economy in the world and has the second-highest number of billionaires after the United States, according to the latest numbers released by Forbe s.
Now the world's second-largest economy, and flush with cash, China has built the world's longest high-speed rail network -- boasting more than 8, 300 kilometers (5, 100 miles) of routes -- in a few short years.
The world's sixth-biggest economy, long notable for its all-but silent part on the world stage, now has the makings of a foreign policy.
Despite the massive success that has seen it become the world's second-largest economy, to many outside the business world, "made in China" still manages to plant the seeds of doubt about product quality.
But Argentina's is the 17th-largest economy in the world, Hong Kong's the 24th-largest.
In spite of a devastating defeat in World War II, Japan had emerged from the rubble to be again acknowledged a world power on par with the strongest nations of the West, and accepted as the world's second-largest economy after the United States.
These days, the world's 10th largest economy - which aspires to become the world's third largest by 2030 - is hobbled by what many call "policy paralysis", runaway inflation (nearly double the government's own "tolerable" estimate of 5%-6%) and is snowed under an avalanche of corruption scandals which smack of crony capitalism.
Despite a decade-long slowdown and then recession, which followed the collapse of the country's stockmarket in 1990-91, Japan remains the world's second-largest economy.
Fine as to the first, but, as argued here repeatedly, Japan--and the larger world economy that still relies greatly on Tokyo--needs more bold strokes.
It all adds up to more dynamism in the world economy--opportunity as well as risk.
Much of this can be blamed on the feeble state of the rich-world economy.
By the mid-1980s, the world economy was up and running in a virtuous cycle that benefited the world economy and most notably Japan that experienced its golden decade.
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As insular Brazil--the world's eighth-largest economy--opens to the globe, other family-owned companies there are selling their operations wholesale to foreign firms.
That might be the cornerstone for an even bigger free-trade area eventually including China, the world's second-biggest economy.
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde said emerging economies - whose growth helped support the world economy during the global crisis - are starting to be affected by weaknesses in the advanced economies.
But Mr Mantega was keen to play down the symbolic transition - which comes after China officially overtook Japan as the world's second-biggest economy last year.
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This is the world's second-largest economy but its outward flow of FDI is just the fifth largest in the world.
Falloffs in various indicators in the world's second-largest economy resemble the plunge of countries like the U.S. into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Japan may be the world's second-largest economy and the yen also has improved lately, moving from 134 to the dollar in January to 117 now.
Both are in the prime of their careers, one as leader of the world's fastest-growing economy in the last decade, the other as head of the biggest financial hedge fund in the world.
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