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Salon Goodbye to cheap oil

The world's shrinking supply of oil may have disastrous effects on the economy and our security.
  • Exit the dragon

    Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens
  • From Guantánamo to paradise

    Seventeen Guantánamo inmates of Uighur origin may soon be leaving Cuba for Palau.
  • Tiananmen silence turns 20

    Two decades after the massacre in Beijing, the event remains a taboo in China.
  • Prius vs. Hummer: No contest

    Toyota's third-gen hybrid races ahead, while GM's embarrassing dinosaur lumbers to China. There's a moral here
  • Twitter's moment of Chinese truth

    A new medium hits the big time: No tweeting about Tiananmen, declare the commissars
  • Return of the oil price spike

    Been to the gas station lately? It's not pretty. This time, speculators might really be to blame
  • Smart politics: Obama names Huntsman ambassador to China

    By picking the Utah governor, the president sidelined a potentially strong opponent in 2012, but the Republican will get a boost, too.
  • Return of the oil grinch

    For the first time in six months, the price of crude is pushing $60. Sit back and watch the economic "green shoots" wither.
  • The great Chinese credit binge

    Banks are loaning like mad in China: When you're state-owned, you take government stimulus suggestions seriously.
  • Peak star anise?

    The Chinese spice contains the key ingredient for manufacturing the antiviral flu medicine Tamiflu. Prices are rising.
  • The world's new superpower

    China keeps growing even as the global economy melts down. The U.S. may never recover its former place atop the pecking order.
  • China: What world recession?

    Forecasts for economic growth in the Middle Kingdom are getting some big revisions upward. That global meltdown? Just a speed bump.
  • Does corporate hog farming breed swine flu?

    Critics of multinational agribusiness farming practices suggest that Mexico's problems could be a result of overcrowded pigs in unsanitary conditions.
  • China goes for the (non-Olympic) gold

    Goldbugs and currency speculators are excited by a Chinese announcement that it is increasing its reserves of the shiny yellow stuff. Should the U.S. be alarmed?
  • Lots of cows and windmills, but where are the workers?

    Green energy doesn't necessarily mean lots of new jobs, say economists. But do we even need that argument?
  • Michele Bachmann to China: The buck stays here

    The People's Republic yearns to dislodge the dollar from its supreme perch. But the congresswoman from Minnesota will not permit such ignominy. Who will prevail in this battle of superpowers?
  • Michele Bachmann defends the holy dollar

    The Minnesota congresswoman introduces legislation to protect the greenback from the new world order meddling of Tim Geithner, the Benedict Arnold of treasury secretaries.
  • Save the Alabama condom!

    A sexy tale of free trade, stimulus politics, cheap Chinese prophylactics and imperiled American jobs. With guest appearances from Rush, Leno and impotent Republican senators.
  • Reading the semiconductor tea leaves

    Short-term blip or the future of the global economy? China's government stimulates domestic sales of high-tech gadgets.
  • Real socialists know how to execute a stimulus

    While the U.S. tip-toes its way to an economic recovery, China barrels ahead.
  • The U.S. economy is freaking China out

    Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is "worried" about his country's trillion-dollar loan to the U.S. Is that a threat?
  • "We hate you guys"

    China will keep buying U.S. Treasuries. But not without some complaints
  • Rich man, poor man, recycling man

    In the U.S. college students volunteer to sort through trash. But in China, that's not what education is for -- at least for now
  • East beats West for that new car smell

    China outpaces the U.S. in auto sales for the first time.
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