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Phil Collins to give career one more night

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:40:15 +0000

English soft-rocker Phil Collins, one of the most successful artists of the 1980s, will briefly put retirement on hiatus with a charity concert in Miami Beach. The former Genesis singer will put on an "intimate acoustic" show in the Florida city on December 12, the Little Dreams Foundation said Wednesday. Collins will also be the master of ceremonies for the gala of the Little Dreams Foundation, a charity founded by the singer and his ex-wife Orianne that raises money for disadvantaged young people who want to pursue talents in the arts and sports.

What Disaster Films Miss About Death

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:34:30 +0000

In the new movie “Everest,” which is about an expedition on that mountain in 1996, the most poignant of the five deaths portrayed onscreen is one that hews carefully to real events. The mountaineer Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke) is trapped overnight near the summit in violent weather, and he is unable to descend the following day. In a moment likely adapted from transcripts of radio exchanges that occurred that weekend, Hall’s team at Base Camp patches him through to his pregnant wife in New Zealand, who desperately encourages him to keep moving. But with his oxygen regulator blocked by ice, and his hands and feet freezing into uselessness, he dies on the slopes.

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Florida Says Uber Driver Isn’t An Employee After All

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:20:53 +0000

A Florida state agency that had earlier ruled that an ex-Uber driver was an employee reversed its decision Wednesday after Uber appealed the case.

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Los Angeles prosecutors reviewing case against Bill Cosby

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:20:01 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors are reviewing an investigation into a model's accusations that Bill Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion, an official said Thursday.

Legacy of Caribbean slavery still stings despite British PM saying 'move on'

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:13:09 +0000

By Rebekah Kebede KINGSTON, Jamaica (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After a long time wondering, Verene Shepherd took a DNA test last year and finally learned that her mother's family came from Cameroon in West Africa. Many of the social and economic ills plaguing the region trace back to slavery and could be addressed by reparations, advocates say.

Companies Should Be as Mad About Amazon’s Ban as Shoppers

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:12:12 +0000

What happens if you run your business on Amazon Web Services and Amazon ends up competing with you?

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News Corp Sells EdTech Subsidiary Amplify

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:10:00 +0000

Earlier this week, tablet-based educational platform Amplify announced that it was letting go of 500 employees.

On Wednesday, News Corp announced that it is selling Amplify, the company's educational tablet unit, to outside investors. Nearly 40% of the company's workforce—500 employees, to be exact—were reportedly laid off as well.

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Field of Screens

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:08:10 +0000

Listen to Episode 348 of Slate’s The Gist:

Experian Says 15 Million T-Mobile Customers Were Hacked

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:04:35 +0000

Credit reporting agency Experian said Thursday that hackers accessed the social security numbers, birthdates and other personal information belonging to about 15 million T-Mobile wireless customers.

T-Mobile uses Experian to check the credit of its customers.

Experian said T-Mobile customers who applied for wireless service between Sept. 1, 2013 and Sept. 16, 2015 may have had their information stolen.

Experian said it immediately notified law enforcement authorities after discovering the hack and that “there is no evidence to-date that the data has been used inappropriately.”

The companies said that payment card and banking information was not affected.

“I am incredibly angry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian,” said T-Mobile US Inc. CEO John Legere in a statement.

There have been a string of high-profile hacks of businesses and other organizations in recent years affecting millions of people, including adultery website Ashley Madison, Sony Pictures, the insurer Anthem, retailers such as Home Depot and Target, eBay and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Nearly 800 data breaches were reported last year by U.S. organizations, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

Festival Tickets Still Available!

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:00:04 +0000

Did you wait until the last minute? Perhaps you thought, “Oh, I’ll get to it tomorrow,” or, “Wait, what? What’s going on this weekend?”

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How Smart Companies Get Employees to Brag About the Business

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:00:00 +0000

Winning the engaged loyalty of employees is as easy as practicing the Golden Rule.

The Empire Podcast, Episode 2

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:58:04 +0000

“Without a Country” kept the Empire drama chugging along: Cookie, Hakeem, and Andre continued to mount their hostile takeover, while an angry Lucious rapped in prison about “snitch bitches” and contended with an antagonistic guard (guest star Ludacris). Is Rainbow Sensation quite possibly the greatest girl group name ever? And what was up with that weird flashback featuring Kelly Rowland? In this week’s Slate Plus–exclusive TV Club podcast, Aisha Harris and Katy Waldman discuss all these things and more.

Warriors coach Kerr on indefinite leave for surgery recovery

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:57:47 +0000

(Reuters) - The NBA champion Golden State Warriors could be without head coach Steve Kerr for the start of the 2015-16 season after he took a leave of absence on Thursday as he recovers from back surgery. Kerr, 50, who guided the Warriors to the NBA championship in his first season in charge, had surgery to repair a ruptured disc in late July and then a follow-up procedure last month. "After the first two days of training camp, I realized I need to take a step back and focus on my rehabilitation in order to be ready for the grind of another NBA season," Kerr said in a statement.

These Are All the College Campus Shootings in 2015

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:51:32 +0000

The shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., which killed at least 13 and injured 20, is the 45th shooting on school grounds this year and the 17th on a college campus, according to a group that advocates for gun reform.

Everytown for Gun Safety has been tracking every school shooting since the 2012 incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. Since then, there have been 142 shootings at schools, including Thursday’s incident at Umpqua.

The group defines a school shooting as any incident in which a firearm is discharged inside a school building or on campus grounds and not in self-defense, and the shooting at Umpqua is by far the worst incident on a college campus this year. Some incidents are domestic disputes that occurred on campus; others involve professors who have turned violent. Umpqua is the first mass shooting at a college in 2015.

Here are all the college campus shootings this year:

Feb. 2, 2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minn.
0 injured, 0 killed, shooter committed suicide

Feb. 5, 2015
University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
1 killed, shooter committed suicide

Feb. 15, 2015
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
0 injured, 0 killed

Feb. 23, 2015
Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Fla.
3 injured, 0 killed

March 30, 2015
American International College, Springfield, Mass.
0 injured, 0 killed

April 2, 2015
Community College of Beaver County, Beaver Falls, Pa.
1 injured (man accidentally shot himself)

April 2, 2015
Lane College, Jackson, Tenn.
1 injured

April 4, 2015
Everett Community College, Everett, Wash.
0 injured, 0 killed

April 13, 2015
Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, N.C.
1 killed

April 19, 2015
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C.
1 injured

July 27, 2015
University of Florida-Gainesville, Gainesville, Fla.
0 injured, 0 killed

Aug. 8, 2015
Wichita State University, Wichita, Kan.
1 killed

Aug. 27, 2015
Savannah State University, Savannah, Ga.
1 killed

Sept. 3, 2015
Sacramento City College, Sacramento, Calif.
1 killed, 2 injured

Sept. 14, 2015
Delta State University, Cleveland, Miss.
1 killed

Sept. 28, 2015
Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, Mont.
0 injured, 0 killed

Oct. 1, 2015
Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore.
13 dead, at least 20 injured

Accelerate Your Business Growth Through Partnering

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:30:00 +0000

Well aligned companies can accomplish far more combined than either can hope for separately.

Amazon To Ban Sales of Apple TV And Google Chromecast

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:30:00 +0000

Amazon wants to make it harder for customers to buy devices from rivals Google and Apple.

As the streaming wars heat up, Amazon is playing hardball: Effective October 29, the e-commerce retailer is banning sales of Apple TV and Google Chromecast units, according to Bloomberg. Amazon's reasoning is that Apple TV and Chromecast are not compatible with its streaming service, Prime Video. Bloomberg reports that third-party sellers have been told they must stop selling both products; new listings are no longer being accepted, and existing stock must be sold before the ban takes effect.

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5 Foods You’re Spoiling By Putting In the Refrigerator

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:00:03 +0000

Keep this produce out of the fridge: It stays fresher at room temperature.

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25 Ways to Make Your Vocabulary Funnier

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:33:28 +0000

1. Don’t say Run away

Say Absquatulate

Ex.: We camped in line for the new iPhone all night, but finally absquatulated when the wolves came out.

2. Don’t say Brag

Say Bloviate

Ex.: “I’ve made a tremendous amount of money,” the candidate bloviated to the nation. “Billions and billions of dollars.”

3. Don’t call your friend Clumsy

Call him a Blunderbuss

Ex.:“Be careful where you point that musket, you blunderbuss!”

4. Don’t say Umbrella

Say Bumbershoot

Ex.: “You can stand under my bumbershoot,” Rihanna offered as the storm began. “Eh, eh, eh/ Under my bumbershoot.”

5. Don’t say Cranky

Say Cantankerous

Ex.: The cantankerous old man scowled at his waitress. “This water’s too wet,” he croaked.

6. Don’t Say Nonsense

Say Codswallop

Ex.: I try to watch cable news, but everything they say is a load of codswallop.

(Also try: Flapdoodle)

7. Don’t say Queasiness

Say Collywobbles

Ex.: No matter how much I practice beforehand, public speaking on roller coasters always gives me collywobbles!

8. Don’t say Disheveled

Say Discombobulated

Ex.: “For some reason,” thought the Tin Man, “passing though airport security always leaves me discombobulated.”

9. Don’t say Brawl

Say Donnybrook

Ex.: When the Sharks and the Jets accidentally booked the same dance studio, it was an all-out donnybrook.

(Also try: Argle-Bargle)

10. Don’t say Face paint

Say Fard

Ex., as a noun: Pass the fard, Claudette—I’m due onstage any minute!

Ex., as a verb: It looks like someone farded all over that clown’s face.

11. Don’t call your friend Silly

Call her a Flibbertigibbet

Ex.: The nuns agreed that sister Maria—late for another mass while off twirling in the Alps—was a true flibbertigibbet.

12. Don’t say Confused

Say Flummoxed

Ex.: Kanye West was plum flummoxed when Beyoncé failed to win Best Female Video in 2009.

13. Don’t say Ogle

Say Gongoozle

Ex.: Whenever Camilla the chicken passed Gonzo’s door, she felt sure she was being gonzoogled.

14. Don’t call a teenage boy Awkward

Call him a Hobbledehoy

Ex.: As a young hobbledehoy, I failed to get a date until my wedding day.

15. Don’t say Prison

Say Hoosegow

Ex.: They oughta throw you in the hoosegow, because that outfit is a crime against fashion.

16. Don’t say Commotion

Say Hurlyburly

Ex.: Fed up with the hurlyburly of city life, The Coens found a nice quiet timeshare on Mars.

(Also try: Brouhaha)

17. Don’t say Fuss

Say Kerfuffle

Ex.: There was a great kerfuffle about who should get the diner’s last piece of pie, until we learned it was minced meat.

18. Don’t say Pamper

Say Mollycoddle

Ex.: “I do not mollycoddle my children,” said Molly, tying her 23-year-old son’s shoes.

19. Don’t say Sissy

Say Namby-pamby

Ex.: “Don’t be a namby-pamby, boy. Pick up that chainsaw and cut your father’s hair.”

20. Don’t say Dishonesty

Say Skullduggery

Ex.: “I’m not voting for anyone,” the millennial oozed. “Politics these days are nothing but skullduggery.”

21. Don’t call someone Profane

Call him a Slangwhanger

Ex.: “I enjoy Lil’ Wayne’s music,” Grandma admitted, “but does he have to be such a slangwhanger?”

22. Don’t call someone a Pessimist

Call him a Smellfungus

Ex.: I hate going to the beach with Al Gore; on every sunny day he’s such a smellfungus!

23. Don’t say Counterclockwise

Say Widdershins

Ex.: It is a vicious myth that toilet water rotates clockwise in Australia and widdershins in America.

24. Don’t call it an Exit

Call it a Vomitory

Ex.: After eating too much buttered popcorn at the circus, dad promptly sprinted to the vomitory.

25. Don’t say Exhausted

Say Wabbit

Ex.: After a long day of hunting, Elmer Fudd was absolutely wabbit.

**Know a funny word that makes us look like troglodytes? Share it with us in the comments below.

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Helping an Employee Overcome Their Self-Doubt

Tara Sophia Mohr — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:00:18 +0000

You want to give a member of your team a stretch assignment, but she tells you she’s just “not ready yet” — she’d like to get more experience before taking it on.

You offer to make a valuable introduction for someone you mentor. He seemed excited about it at first, but doesn’t follow up. Later, you discover that he felt intimidated, like he’d have nothing to say.

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support.

The negative impact of that voice is tremendous. If someone on your team is hampered by a harsh inner critic, they’re likely to talk themselves out of sharing their ideas and insights. Held back by self-doubt, some of your most talented people will shy away from leading projects or teams, or put off going for the big opportunities – new clients, new business lines, innovative moves – that could help your business grow.

As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

The Manager’s Common Mistake

Typically, managers and mentors make a mistake. They think their job is to encourage, compliment, or cheerlead when their people are struggling with self-doubt. They say things like, “You really can do this!” Or “I have complete confidence in you. I wouldn’t have given you this role if I didn’t think you had the capability to do it.”

In the coaching field, this is known as “arguing with the inner critic.” It’s the dialogue between someone’s voice of self-doubt (“I can’t do that, I don’t have what it takes,” etc.) and the affirming words of a supportive person who has a different perspective (“Yes you can! You are great!”).

Coaches-in-training are taught, “Never, never argue with the client’s inner critic.” It’s understood that such arguments are usually a waste of everyone’s time, for two reasons.

First, such reassurance rarely is convincing. The inner critic’s view is not based in data, but in instinctual, over-reactive fears of vulnerability and failure. Hearing another individual say something along the lines of “No, you’re great at that!” often doesn’t speak to those underlying fears. In fact, it can add to the stressful feelings of being an imposter, as in, “No one around me realizes that I really don’t know what I’m doing, and they are all counting on me, thinking I can pull this off – but I can’t!”

Second, if you help team members and mentees through their self-doubt through compliments or reassurances, the solution requires you or someone like you. You’re giving them a fish, but you aren’t teaching your people how to fish. You haven’t given them tools to navigate self-doubt on their own. That’s what they really need, because they will make most of their inner-critic driven decisions quickly, in their own heads, without talking to anyone.

An Alternative Approach

The alternative is to take the conversation up a level. Instead of arguing with your team members’ inner critics, you can introduce a conversation about self-doubt – what it is, why it shows up for each of us, and how it can impact what you achieve as a team. You can start to do this with a couple steps.

1. Introduce the idea of the “inner critic.” You might choose to call it imposter syndrome, the voice of self-doubt, monkey mind, or another term you feel is appropriate for your work context.

What’s key is to introduce the concept of a voice in all of our heads that does not reflect realistic thinking, and that anxiously and irrationally underestimates our own capabilities. Use this list of common qualities of the inner critic’s voice to help your people identify their critics. You can also use the chart below to talk about the difference between the inner critic and more realistic thinking.

2. Ask your team members to start developing the skill of managing their inner critics. Clarify that you understand that fears and self-doubts will naturally come up when your team members or mentees grow into new roles, take on greater responsibility, or speak up. The goal you want to them to work toward is not unfailing confidence, but rather, more skillful management of their own limiting beliefs and self-doubts.

In doing this, you are introducing a powerful new idea: that readiness for advancement and leadership does not depend on an innate quality of confidence, but rather, on building the skill of managing one’s own self-doubts.

To do this, they should practice noticing when they’re hearing their critic, and to name the critic thoughts as such when they occur. That’s as simple as noting to oneself, “I’m hearing my inner critic’s worries about this again.”

Typically, once someone understands the fear-based roots of the critic’s voice and is conscious of when it’s speaking up, they can choose to not take direction from it, and to take direction from more resourceful and rational parts of themselves instead.

One woman in my course, a manager at a telecommunications company, brought a small group of her colleagues together for this conversation. One colleague told her afterward, “I knew I had a little, mean, nagging voice inside my head, but until now I hadn’t really appreciated how much impact it had on the choices I make.” Another realized she was not applying for an available promotion largely because of inner critic. After the discussion, she applied for the job – and got it.

Grace, an executive at a professional services firm, worked with a manager who was dealing with major changes in the scope of her role, activating the manager’s inner critic. “In addition to encouraging her,” Grace said, “we spent time digging through how the changes had triggered her inner critic. We made a clear plan for what she needed to accomplish. Many milestones were reached (and celebrated) but when things didn’t go to plan, we explored whether/how the manager’s inner critic was factoring in. As time went on, the manager learned to better predict when her inner critic might kick in, and how it could be quieted. She gained a tool she can rely upon, and navigated challenging times of change with flying colors.

You want your people to do all that they are capable of, to keep saying “yes” to being on their growing edge. That means they’ll frequently feel self-doubt. You can empower them by addressing the inner critic head-on, and you can give them tools to become skillful responders to their own self-doubt.

The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

John Z. Ayanian, MD — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:00:52 +0000

Racial disparities in life expectancy are a key indicator of inequity in health outcomes. Although the United States has made progress in narrowing the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites, from 7.6 years in 1970 to 3.8 years in 2010, a disparity remains — largely from blacks’ higher death rates at younger ages from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, as well as higher risks for HIV infection, homicide, and infant mortality.

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. In fact, eliminating racial disparities in health care is vital to pushing the entire health care system toward improving quality while containing costs — so-called value-based care. In its 2001 “Crossing the Quality Chasm” report, the Institute of Medicine identified equitable care as one of six core aims of high-value health care systems. And since 2003, Congress has mandated that the federal government produce the annual National Healthcare Disparities Report as part of the effort to monitor national progress in this domain.

In 2011, Richard Allen Williams and I outlined five principles for eliminating racial disparities as part of health care reform:

Provide insurance coverage and access to high-quality care for all Americans.
Promote a diverse health care workforce.
Deliver patient-centered care.
Maintain accurate, complete race and ethnicity data to monitor disparities in care.
Set measurable goals for improving quality of care, and ensure that goals are achieved equitably for all racial and ethnic groups.

Racial health disparities are associated with substantial annual economic losses nationally, including an estimated $35 billion in excess health care expenditures, $10 billion in illness-related lost productivity, and nearly $200 billion in premature deaths. Concerted efforts to reduce health disparities could thus have immense economic and social value.

Employers and health plans have an important stake in these efforts. For example, reducing disparities in effective asthma treatment by 10% for African American workers could save more than $1,600 per person annually in medical expenses and costs of missed work. Similarly, eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in access to outpatient mental health treatment could reduce costs, particularly for people on Medicare or Medicaid, by limiting emergency room visits and hospitalizations for mental illness and other medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.

Insight Center

Much of what we know about reducing racial disparities has come from organized systems of care, such as health maintenance organizations (HMOs), as they have advanced information systems for collecting data on health care quality and are often subject to public reporting. For example, to guide quality-improvement efforts, the state of Massachusetts required hospitals beginning in 2007, and health plans in 2009, to collect information on the race, ethnicity, and language of their patients. In 2009 the Institute of Medicine called on all health systems to collect these data to help monitor and remedy disparities in care. Recent efforts to achieve racial equity in health care have focused on measuring and reporting disparities in health care quality and outcomes, followed by interventions aimed at reducing those disparities — interventions which are then themselves measured and evaluated.

Such interventions can have a major impact. As colleagues and I reported in 2005, Medicare HMOs had reduced racial disparities in basic processes of care, such as testing cholesterol and blood sugar levels in older adults with heart disease or diabetes. However, substantial racial disparities persisted in how well those parameters were controlled in this population, thereby contributing to greater risks of heart disease, kidney failure, and stroke among the black community. Nearly a decade later, we found that racial disparities have been eliminated in control of high blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol within Medicare HMOs in the western United States, where quality of care is highest. In contrast, these clinical outcomes remain substantially worse for blacks than whites in the Northeast, Midwest, and South, despite evidence that treating high blood pressure is highly cost-effective.

Optimal control of high blood pressure, blood sugar, obesity, and smoking could further improve life expectancy by 5 to 7 years for African American adults by preventing or postponing deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, particularly for those with low incomes in the rural South. Unfortunately, most blacks in the South live in states that have opted not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, so those with the lowest incomes will continue to experience disparities that could be prevented by better access to effective health care.

In addition, racial disparities in death rates from colorectal cancer have widened as screening rates for blacks nationally have not kept pace with those of whites. Encouraging evidence from New York City has shown the benefits of coordinated public and private efforts to promote colorectal cancer screening. As rates of screening colonoscopy rose from 42% of eligible adults in 2003 to 62% in 2007, large disparities in this service were eliminated for black and Hispanic adults. The costs of screening more middle-aged adults can be largely offset by long-term Medicare savings in preventing colorectal cancer, which is expensive to treat.

Efforts to eliminate racial disparities in health care are important, but they alone will not erase the racial disparity in life expectancy in the United States. The efforts must be coupled with broader policies and partnerships to promote community health through racial equity in education, employment, housing, and the judicial system. Better integration of these approaches to reduce racial disparities in health care and community health will sustain and accelerate progress in narrowing the racial gap in life expectancy, and it will enhance the economic value that comes with better health and longevity. Until then, efforts to combat racial inequality will remain as important in health care as they are in many other facets of American society.

Devaluations didn't work

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:10:08 +0000

THE term "currency wars" has sparked a vigorous debate within the economics commentariat. The term was coined by Brazil's then finance minister, Guido Mantega, in 2010 when the real was moving sharply higher, a nice irony given the real's recent falls to record lows. Some saw it as a negative development, talking of beggar-thy-neighbour devaluations designed to grab a bigger share of world trade; eventually, this was a zero sum game since all currencies cannot devalue. The counter-argument was that, on the contrary, this was positive for the world economy. Countries were easing monetary policy, either by cutting interest rates or adopting quantitative easing, and the aggregate effect would be to boost global demand. Parallels were drawn with the 1930s when developed countries abandoned the gold standard and those that devalued first, recovered most quickly.

A new (privately circulated, so no link) note from Stephen King, the senior economic adviser at HSBC,...Continue reading

Shares struggle again

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:52:35 +0000

WHEN a canary stops singing, it is worth a sidelong glance. When whole flocks of birds keel over, it is time to be alarmed. The warning signs in the financial markets and the global economy are mounting. The early omens could perhaps be dismissed; falling commodity prices were a response to increased supply in oil or the equivalent of a tax cut for western consumers. Subdued inflation was just a consequence of lower commodity prices. Sluggish trade growth could be explained by a change in China's manufacturing strategy; building more goods from scratch rather than assembling components made from abroad. Falling Chinese share prices in August were simply the bursting of an earlier bubble.

But it is nearly the end of September and more bad news seems to be announced every day. Chinese industrial profits dropped 8.8% year-on-year in August. Cheap Chinese steel was blamed for the closure of a steel...Continue reading

'Arrow'; 'The 100'; 'American Idol'; more TV recaps

EW Staff — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

'The Americans'; 'Empire'; 'Top Chef'; 'Broad City'; more TV recaps