france24.com - 27 days ago
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AFP - Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. The cutting-edge but controversial technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being tested at the Mikawa power ...
democracy-project.com - 24 days ago
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democracy-project.com —
During Japan’s banking crisis in the early part
of this century, the Bank of Japan pioneered a...
process called quantitative easing (QE) whereby the central bank massively boosted the reserves that commercial banks held in its coffers. Bernanke and Co. have been using QE to prop up our ...
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Quantitative Easing
search.japantimes.co.jp - 27 days ago
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search.japantimes.co.jp —
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The U.S. State Department retracted on
Saturday an earlier announcement that Secretary of State Hillary...
Rodham Clinton would meet with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada this Friday. The department apparently jumped the gun when it made ...
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Okada's meeting with Clinton on, then off
news.bbc.co.uk - 10/29/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
The US, the world's economic powerhouse, joins Japan,
Germany and France as the leading economies that have...
emerged from recession. While economists may be celebrating, it is too soon for the rest of us. The recent weakness of the dollar won't help ...
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US economy is growing once again
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... Japan Aims to Bury Greenhouse Gas Emissions Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. The cutting-edge but controversial technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being tested at the Mikawa power station, located near the coast of Japan’s southern Fukuoka prefecture. ...
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