The combination of low prices and warmer weather in the past has proven an irresistible one for those retiring or simply down-shifting their careers.

FORBES: Where Americans Are Moving

What would be of foremost importance in this rebalancing process would be to bring the large trade surpluses and foreign-exchange reserves down and shifting the driver of economic growth from investment and exports to domestic consumption, argues Thornton.

FORBES: China's Growing Contradictions

While the global smartphone growth slows down, demand is simultaneously shifting towards low-income markets like Brazil, India, Nigeria and Malaysia.

FORBES: How Dangerous is the Current Smartphone Slowdown?

From here, you can gaze down at the ocean shifting through a paint-chart's worth of blues as the ship draws closer to the islands.

BBC: All at sea in New Zealand

The hope is that by extending the maturity of central-bank money, broadening the range of collateral against which banks can borrow and shifting from direct lending to an auction, the central bankers will bring down spreads in the one- and three-month money markets.

ECONOMIST: A collaboration over the credit crisis

The two placed a pair of gloves down on center ice, and Mr. Martin executed tight, figure-eight turns while shifting weight between inside and outer skates.

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