If we're "only" talking about a bumpy, anaemic recovery, not a double-dip - and we don't see a game-changer for the global economy in the next few months, like a US default or a meltdown for the euro - these kinds of measures to support the economy look more likely at this stage than another dose of quantitative easing.
On board, a rather macho admiral bellowed over the intercom that he didn't care about global warming - but his job was to keep watch over the waters around the US and there was now a lot of water where there used to be ice.
Cancer Research UK, which funded the study, believe that if further trials prove successful, a single bank of T-cells could serve as a global source of immune cells to treat the condition.
Interestingly, our brethren over at Engadget Chinese also spotted a TD-LTE-ready Samsung Galaxy S III at China Mobile's MWC booth (note the "China Mobile 4G" logo on the back of the phone, pictured above), but it wasn't mentioned at the Global TD-LTE Initiative summit at MWC.
What's worse, the ITU has approved twelve bands for LTE use around the world, so don't count on a wide selection of global devices -- and you thought sorting through international 3G was bad, didn't you?
Vanguard doesn't recommend to financial-planning clients a global bond fund or exchange-traded funds that could mimic a commodities strategy.
At the moment it doesn't have the global reach of Android - which is about 60% of the market.
Even as GM makes more of its trademarks and logos pan-global, you can't expect a common tagline around the world.
So Fastow says he got Enron to guarantee he couldn't lose, through the so-called "Global Galactic" side agreements with former Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey.
Cyclones, floods and droughts aren't in themselves new - but how much is global warming likely to worsen them, and how far will countries like India be able to influence the global debate?
Climate change has become a focus where - I heard this morning that 33 people - 33 percent of people don't believe global warming is a problem.
But if the necessary political will exists, the T-TIP could be one of the most important contributions to the trans-Atlantic relationship and the global trading system in decades.
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But China's Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told the same briefing that the issue of North Korea and its satellite launch wouldn't be on the agenda at the global nuclear-security summit in Seoul next week.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal in November, he didn't rely heavily on the risk-management department at MF Global, reporting only to the company's board of directors.
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U.S.-based Hertz -- which operates from 8, 500 locations across 150 countries -- isn't just cutting expenditure to deal with the global slowdown.
One reason Tully's owner TC Global Inc. didn't pick the Starbucks-AgriNurture deal was the complicated relationship Tully's has with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.
Some say the lesson of the past few years is that you can't have a truly free global capital market without recurrent crises - because the free flow of capital inevitably leads to massive imbalances, and massive imbalances inevitably mean big crises when they get unwound (see my blog from 21 December).
On the other hand, global economic distress doesn't invariably work at cross-purposes with American interests.
Within that framework, the decade 2000-2009 was one of the warmest since modern record-keeping began, but global mean temperatures didn't breach the levels of the early Holocene.
What's more, as I've pointed out here repeatedly, a growing number of the bosses of these companies aren't Brits - and therefore they are demonstrably available for hire in a global market.
So for some British-based global companies, a fall in sterling isn't the boon it is cut out to be.
But if Chandler and Glassman are right--that the liquidity surplus is mostly due to a global awakening--then the good times aren't over.
Now, that doesn't mean you can expect to make a fortune if the global sell-off worsens or the U.S. plunges into a deep recession.
The state isn't clear on the fate of the global internet in Iran, either -- although it has talked about creating an isolated national network before.
But, by that point, his reputation at home had been so scarred by his involvement in the Watergate break-in that he couldn't capitalize on his image as a global problem solver.
So the UK's cosmopolitan stock market may yet deliver a healthy return to global investors this year - even if we don't see much in the way of growth here at home.
But the fear then was that if the bailout wasn't arranged, a collapse of Long-Term Capital would ripple through the global banking system, which had major exposure as a counterparty to those highly leveraged bets.
Geeks, designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, global activists -- viewed one way, they couldn't have been more different.
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In case you didn't have the chance to venture over to our in-depth review of the global Samsung Galaxy Note II, it's definitely worth a look -- but we'll be happy to go over some of the smartphone's hardware here regardless.
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