With less U.S. forces nearby, it will seem like a good time to take chances.
China will be buying less U.S. Treasurys, or so it seems.
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Reserve accumulation, an indicator of the degree of Chinese intervention in the currency market, has slowed markedly since the third quarter of 2011 as China buys less U.S. debt.
Mr. Ewanick earlier this year struck a broad sponsorship deal with the soccer team as part of a move to shift GM to a less U.S.-centric approach to marketing.
The first is a rise in global inflation and the second is emerging markets intervening in currency markets and then diversify their holding with more gold and less U.S. dollars.
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That looks expensive but is probably a good deal less than U.S. utilities will be spending to build new nuclear plants.
Liquin said during an investment forum in Moscow run by VTB Capital that China was looking to invest less in U.S. debt because of the lower return.
The CEOs I talk with are well aware that slower growth in a less risky U.S. is often preferable to goosing share prices for short-term gains in China.
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In Moscow on Tuesday, Jin Liquin, the chairman of the supervisory board of the China sovereign wealth fund, said that the fund was looking to invest less in U.S. Treasurys.
But it is still much less than the U.S., even as the U.S. economy stagnates.
Alexandra Meissnitzer, a former Austrian World Cup champion said Austrians now envy the less-rigid U.S. approach.
An American general says the situation is less violent then U.S. media reports suggest.
The Croatian employees are paid more than Croatians at other local companies, but less than their U.S. counterparts.
Companies would have competition from companies in foreign countries, which can pay less than the U.S. minimum wage, for example China.
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Brazil will grow less than the U.S., and it is not recovering from a crisis the way the U.S. economy is.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is only slightly less optimistic, projecting U.S. output reaching 10.73 million barrels per day by 2020.
It appears that the Japanese also spend marginally less than the U.S. "But they get so much more out of it, " says Cato's Niskanen.
Most of the cuts proposed so far involve ground forces, which will be in less demand as U.S. troops depart from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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That is more or less where the U.S. is now.
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One of the purported justifications for this ham-handed effort to take down Ahmed Chalabi is that he has been less and less of a U.S. ally in recent months.
But the Soviet Union is looking to the United States to do more: Moscow expects nothing less than a U.S. "seal of approval" for financial assistance to the Soviet Union.
Add to that the fact that the United States has the highest corporate tax rate among all OECD countries and it becomes less mysterious why U.S. businesses shift more operations abroad.
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In fact, gas is so plentiful in the U.S. right now that companies like Cheniere Energy have gotten the green light to start exporting it. (See: To Import Less Oil, U.S. Must Export More Gas).
They added that the employees persuaded U.S. taxpayer-clients to move money from UBS to Wegelin by claiming that, unlike UBS, Wegelin did not have offices outside of Switzerland and would be less vulnerable to U.S. law enforcement.
By the end of the decade, U.S. emissions will most likely decline to approximately 12 percent of global emissions, or less than half the U.S. share in 2000.
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Yet the beer has less than half the U.S. market share of leader Bud Light.
Beginning today, GameStop pre-order customers can get the Wii U for less with exclusive trade bonuses.
Sany machines cost about 10% to 20% less than the top U.S. brands, Mr. Hutchinson said.
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