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Britain is expected to borrow some £175 billion next year, leaving it with one of the biggest budget deficits in the developed world, projected to be about 14% of the country's gross domestic product

Developers say they now have to compete with banks, as well
as each other, to shift stocks of unsold property.

Thailand is historically the US’s favorite Southeast Asian stooge, so there has been little motivation for executive criticism of the Thai government. Occasionally, as in late August, when a Thai woman was hit with an 18-year prison term for insulting Bhumibol, American newspaper readers are reminded of the bizarre crime of lese majeste. But the media has been overwhelmingly silent about the king’s personal powerlust: deflecting sporadic criticism of his policies—corporate exploitation for the enrichment of the country’s light-skinned elites—onto a chimerical political structure.

In the last quarter of 2008, Brazil’s industrial output dropped by 19%. Eight hundred thousand workers lost their jobs between October and January (nearly 1% of the workforce), and that doesn’t even begin to take account of job losses in the informal economy, which employs around 40% of Brazilian workers. Half a million Brazilians have found themselves back in poverty or extreme poverty.

Imports leapt by 52.7% between the first and second half of 1994. As a result, many Brazilian businesses closed or had to go into partnership with foreign companies, which accounted for 70% of Brazilian mergers and acquisitions between 1995 and 1999. Somewhat amazed by the brazenness of this denationalisation programme, the staunchly pro-liberalisation Veja magazine observed that “the history of capitalism has rarely seen the transfer of control on such a scale in such a short period” (7).

Forbundet ser ikke at utleieordningen kan være noen god løsning på
industrikraftproblematikken.

– Vi er veldig overrasket over at LO forutsetter at det skal være mulig å si
at det bare er industrien som skal få leie inn kraft. Vi har ikke sett noe
sted at det skal være mulig å sette opp den typen diskrimineringsklausul,
legger han til.