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Economics and society: Barrier to a breakthrough
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Ghaleb Ibrahim, a grizzled Jordanian immigrant with a mane of wavy grey hair, holds to a modest vision of the American dream. He wants to own and drive a taxicab in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the city in which the television show Happy Days was set. The trouble is that he does not have $150,000.
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With Apple battling for its iPad trademark in China, another famous American product – Jeremy Lin – could soon face similar trouble. A small sporting goods company in Wuxi, a manufacturing hub near Shanghai, has obtained a trademark on the Chinese name of the New York Knicks basketball star. http://on.ft.com/zMZ3pX
Jeremy Lin: a Chinese trademark?
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But before despairing at what seems another blatant case of piracy in China, this example actually raises several important points about the evolution of laws and competition for companies doing business in China.
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Do rising prices at the pump threaten President Obama's re-election?
US feels pinch from high petrol prices
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The gallons add up as, across the US, the price of petrol keeps rising. The average cost of a gallon of regular fuel has hit $3.49 a gallon, a record high for February and up sharply from $2.25 five years ago. (In the UK the average price is the equivalent of about $8 per gallon.)
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From the Tea Party to the Occupy movement, what activists in effect rage against is the rent-seeking under which some grow rich at the expense of others. The less equal a country is, the more important fairness becomes. http://on.ft.com/yJ7Pyb
Economics and society: Barrier to a breakthrough
www.ft.com
Ghaleb Ibrahim, a grizzled Jordanian immigrant with a mane of wavy grey hair, holds to a modest vision of the American dream. He wants to own and drive a taxicab in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the city in which the television show Happy Days was set. The trouble is that he does not have $150,000.
1 hour ago
With Apple battling for its iPad trademark in China, another famous American product – Jeremy Lin – could soon face similar trouble. A small sporting goods company in Wuxi, a manufacturing hub near Shanghai, has obtained a trademark on the Chinese name of the New York Knicks basketball star. http://on.ft.com/zMZ3pX
Jeremy Lin: a Chinese trademark?
blogs.ft.com
But before despairing at what seems another blatant case of piracy in China, this example actually raises several important points about the evolution of laws and competition for companies doing business in China.
20 hours ago
Do rising prices at the pump threaten President Obama's re-election?
US feels pinch from high petrol prices
www.ft.com
The gallons add up as, across the US, the price of petrol keeps rising. The average cost of a gallon of regular fuel has hit $3.49 a gallon, a record high for February and up sharply from $2.25 five years ago. (In the UK the average price is the equivalent of about $8 per gallon.)
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