Thursday, October 20, 2011

Links ~ Marshall Plan And The Arab Spring 2011 ..Whatever Happened?

Truman Signs European Recovery Act

July 2011 ~ *More than US$ 716 Million for Financing New Development Projects in the Muslim World

Mideast power brokers call for "Marshall Plan" after unrest ...

Tunisian Dinar ~ In Pursuit of a Convertible Currency, The Tunisian Dinar ...

U.S. State Department rushes to rebuild Iraq ...

Saturday, October 8, 2011 - Marshall Plan for Iraq ~ U.S. State Department is preparing for the biggest project in Iraq since the Marshall Plan ...

and .. G8 raises Arab Spring financing pledge to $38 billion ...

and then ..G8 Commits $80 Billion to Arab Spring Democracy

and .. Must watch ~ President Obama's Full Speech on Mideast Policy ...

September 2011 .. G8 Commits $80 Billion to Arab Spring Democracy

May 2011 .. Snip ~ "A senior administration official, who gave details about planned U.S. economic aid for Egypt and Tunisia during a conference call with reporters Wednesday, said Obama would also announce "several billion dollars" in additional funding from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund US expected to cancel $1 billion of Egypt's debt - Marshall Plan ...

May 14, 2011 .. A Marshall plan for the Middle East?

_U.S.A. Infrastructure Bank and planning for millions of jobs_July 11th ~ WOW ~ The Blueprint for Western Energy Prosperity

June 25th ~ Infrastructure Bank? Smartest investments? ...

and related articles ~ American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...

June 29th ~ Interesting ~ Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! ~ Bill Clinton's Group Offers Recipe for Economy

May 7th ~ Obama asks Congress for 30 billion dollars for small firms ~ He first called for the fund in his January State of the Union address ...

and more related articles ~Tuesday - Obama eyes bank bailout funds to create jobs, help businesses get loans; speech on TuesdayObama Urges Major New Stimulus, Jobs SpendingU.S. Biden predicts job growth of up to 500,000 in coming months ...

May 16th (what's the hold up? tax laws need to be put into place, imo kel) U.S. Set To Reach $14.3 Trillion ‘Debt Ceiling’ ~ Boehner wants to make a deal ~ Think Tank Report Due Monday ...

_Marshall Plan_ Snip~ White House officials have billed Thursday's speech at the U.S. state department as a "major address." It comes days after days after Gen. Jim Jones, a former Obama national security adviser, suggested a new Marshall Plan for emerging democracies in the Middle East and Northern Africa — a reference to the strategy for revitalizing Europe led by the secretary of state under President Harry Truman, Army Gen. George C. Marshall.

Link ~ A Marshall plan for the Middle East?

More Related Links ~

May 2011 ~ US expected to cancel $1 billion of Egypt's debt - Marshall Plan ...

and ..Related articles ~ *GCC Fund to help Bahrain and Oman ~ Marshall Plan ...

*Marshall-style plan to assist Bahrain and Oman ~ Gulf states to aid unrest-hit Bahrain, Oman ...

July 2011 ~ *More than US$ 716 Million for Financing New Development Projects in the Muslim World

Snip ~ Asian Development Bank ~ May 3rd, 2011 ~ HA NOI, VIET NAM --( ADB )-- Finance ministers from France and Japan will join top officials from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other key Asian policymakers at a high-level seminar here later this week to discuss reforming the international monetary system to promote greater global monetary and financial stability. May 3rd working together ...

Link ~ _*** Huge ~ Vietnam - May 4th Joint Meeting ~ ADB, G20 Ministers, IMF to Discuss International Monetary System in High-Level Panel

*IMF Speech ~ Cooperation and Connectedness

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Iraq and Kuwait ~ Maliki urges "accuracy and wisdom" over Mubarak Al-Kabeer port

10/15/2011

Maliki urges "accuracy and wisdom" over Mubarak Al-Kabeer port

BAGHDAD, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said here Saturday there should be "accuracy and wisdom" in dealing with the issue of the Kuwaiti Mubarak Al-Kabeer port.

Speaking in an interview to an Iraqi satellite channel, to be transmitted later, Al-Maliki said: "The issue of Mubarak Port needs to be addressed in accuracy and wisdom. We have taken significant steps that will lead to a final decision after having taken note of the findings of the technical committee."

The Iraqi prime minister had sent a technical team to Kuwait to look into the possible effects of the new Kuwaiti harbor on Iraqi maritime movement.

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Iraq's Law of Customs Tariff to be Applied Beginning of 2012 ~ neighboring countries pressure on politicians to the continued flow of goods to Iraq

snip ~ "and on the social implications of imposing the law of customs tariff to be applied beginning of the year 2012, said a member of the Economic Commission: will be applied stages so as not to hurt them on citizens due to high prices is expected, will begin with vegetables and fruits"

15.10.2011

Economists: the neighboring countries put pressure on politicians to the continued flow of goods to Iraq

The range between rejection and acceptance is the Iraqi citizen is a victim and a testing of the goods imported him from the origins of poor, and accepted is to buy them to fit it and put the material, some of the politicians refuse to delay the application of the law of customs tariff of its importance in determine the quality of goods, good bad, and some of them say the interest of the citizens had to postpone the bill because it needs to cheap goods, and the Economic Commission representative of the membership Nahida Daini, which asserted that: most of the diseases and deaths in Iraq today are the result of consumption of poor manufacturing or expired, which intervention into Iraq from neighboring countries.

She told (range): that Iraq has become a testing ground for the goods ill-made, the day of the largest importers and consumers, is pushing the neighboring countries on Iraqi politicians to enter their goods into the country in order to obtain hard currency, because, as internationally known, access to hard currency has become "complicated", so these countries work and some traders to put pressure on the government and the Iraqi politicians to enter the goods and the quantities Aldkhh those to the local market, which also led to the injury of many citizens of serious illness or even death as a result of consumption materials, poor manufacturing or expired entered Iraq through import unregulated.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Asian Currencies Under Pressure

October 3, 2011

Asian Currencies Under Pressure

Tokyo, Asian currencies were under pressure on Tuesday in Asia amid the continuing European sovereign debt crisis and concerns over a global economic slowdown, prompting some regional currency authorities, according to traders, to defend their own currencies.

Korean and Malaysian central banks were suspected to have intervened in the currency market, buying their own currencies against the dollar above 1,200.00 won and at 3.2130 Malaysian ringitts, respectively, traders said. The greenback is at 1,205.80 won and 3.2266 ringitts as of 10:50am local time.

The Australian dollar sank to a fresh 12-month low of $0.9472 despite impressive building approvals and trade data for August released earlier in the day. It was also weaker against its Japanese counterpart, as it stood at ¥73.09, down from ¥73.25 in New York on Monday.

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