Global Motors: decades of corrupt collusion with the foreign-aid industry have left General Motors, once the colossus of the auto industry, facing extinction.
General Motors is not merely the world's largest car manufacturer; it is an institutional icon of American capitalism, a pillar of our manufacturing economy, and for decades has been among the bluest of blue-chip investments. As the industry leader in one of America's signature industries, GM is regarded by...

Profile.
Name: C. Danny Spriggs [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Title: Assistant Vice President Company: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Years in Industry: More than 30 years in law enforcement, 28 years serving the United States Secret Service Specialty: Finacial crime investigation and...

Director index.
Abbott, David, Multi-Color Corp. Bogus, Donald, Olin Corp. Boystock, Roy, Morgan Stanley Brennan, Charles III, Rogers Corp. Brestle, Daniel, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Brown, John, St. Jude Medical Inc. Brown, Julia, Tanox Inc. Burns, Patrick,...

The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale: a Pioneer Family of New River.
The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale: A Pioneer Family of New River. By Harry A. Kersey Jr. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 197. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2666-0.) South...

Islamic fund for China real estate market.
Bahrain-based commercial and investment bank, Shamil Bank, has launched the first Islamic property fund for investment in the Chinese real estate market, valued at $100m, in a joint venture with Chinese state-owned CITIC Group. The fund will undertake high-quality, Shari'ah-compliant investments in land development projects, as well as residential,...

Russian banks finance Ilyushin plane sale.
A syndicate of Russian state-owned banks has signed a deal with Cuba's Aviaimport Friday to provide a $94 million,10-year loan for the purchase of two long-range Russian Ilyushin-96-300 passenger planes, according to RIA Novosti. Following the Dec. 15 signing, Roseximbank Chairman Nikolai Gavrilov called the deal a...

Peso rallies to strongest level in 4-1/2 years against US dollar.
The peso rallied to its strongest level against the US dollar in about 4-1/2 years, buoyed by remittances from Filipinos abroad and foreign funds finding their way into the equities market here, dealers said. Traders said inflows from equity investors and overseas Filipino workers more than offset...

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism By John C. Bogle Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 260 pages, $25.00 IN THE POST-DEPRESSION and World War II eras, captains of industry, labor leaders, and the secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and...

Daxor Corp. Buys Two Buildings at Oak Ridge for Its Equipment Manufacturing Facility.
SciTech21-8 January 2007-Daxor Corp. Buys Two Buildings at Oak Ridge for Its Equipment Manufacturing Facility(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Daxor Corporation, a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, has purchased two 10,000-square-foot buildings for its Daxor Oak Ridge Operations (DORO) facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. DORO, which...

Bank of America to focus on cards, corp. banking in Europe, Asia -- CEO.
HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Bank of America Corp will expand into Europe and Asia chiefly through credit cards and corporate banking, rather than through acquisitions, the Wall Street Journal quoted the bank's chairman and chief executive officer Kenneth Lewis as saying. In Asia, the bank will sign...