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Sep 26th 2007 | DETROIT From Economist.comBut the short walk-out is over AP  Get article backgroundTHE streets near General Motors’ Cadillac assembly plant on the east side of Detroit are usually quiet. But for a couple of days that was replaced with commotion as a line of workers,…

Sep 27th 2007 From The Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWireCristina Fernández de Kirchner aims for the presidency Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s first lady, a popular senator and the presidential candidate of the governing Frente para la Victoria (FV) party, is busy making a…

Let's do business Sep 26th 2007 From Economist.com SINGAPORE is the most business-friendly country in the world, according to the World Bank's “Doing Business 2008” report published on Wednesday September 26th. The bank ranks 178 countries using measures including labour-market…

Sep 20th 2007 From The Economist print editionIllustration by James Fryer Does the latest financial crisis signal the end of a golden age of stable growth? IF ECONOMICS were a children's tale, a long period of rising incomes and improving living standards would always be followed by a big,…

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Fifty years ago, before most people living today were born, the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik was heard round the world. It was the sound of wonder and foreboding. Nothing would ever be quite the same again — in geopolitics, in science and technology, in everyday…

Sep 20th 2007 | BRUSSELS From The Economist print editionIllustration by Claudio Munoz What the European Court's ruling means for the technology industry Get article background“YOU asked for it, now live with it.” That was, in essence, the message spread by Microsoft's lobbyists…

Sep 20th 2007 From The Economist print editionDespite the Fed's big interest-rate cut, increasing risk-aversion is likely to depress growth Corbis  AT THE climax of “The Day the Earth Caught Fire”, a science-fiction film made in 1961, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance.…