U.S. insistence that the European Community agree in the present GATT round talks on a radicalreduction in trade barriers -- particularly in the agricultural sector -- that threaten to prevent Central Europe from exporting its way to prosperity.
We need to learn from all industries hit by radical cost reduction in the global innovation race: we need to think thru how companies can complete the journey to service based.
Quantitative easing (QE) was the catch phrase of the day on Tuesday as the markets digest both the Bank of Japan's new and possibly radical asset purchase program and rate reduction pair, and the prospect of further QE by the Fed.