Real Clear Markets

Opportunity from Crisis: Obama?s Chance for Real Global Leadership (The Globalist)

In a perspective from Turkey, top business strategist and civic leader Yilmaz Arg�den argues that Barack Obama may be losing his opportunity to become a global leader. The real challenge for the United States will be creating global solutions for the all-encompassing economic crisis, he argues.

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Landmark Properties and Panel of Industry Experts call for greater transparency and context in regional markets (AME Info)

Spokespeople from Landmark Properties and a number of industry heavyweights called for increased transparency and context amid the range of data currently being released into the Middle East property markets, as part of a wider panel discussion to help shed light on the volatility of global and regional real estate markets.

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QUICK POLL (GlobeSt.com)

WASHINGTON, DC-There are many issues confronting the commercial real estate markets today: for starters, credit is frozen and what little is available is getting deployed to only the best projects and sponsors.

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Stimulus Fight Helps Bring Real Obama Into Focus (RealClearPolitics.com via Yahoo! News)

February is the cruelest month - at least for Barack Obama. After the very real sense of hope and renewal that surrounded Obama's inauguration, shared even by many who did not vote for him, came the morning after. First, another scandal over unpaid taxes took down Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle. Then came the acrimonious battle over the stimulus bill, with a victory that may or ...

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How Bloomberg Plans to Save Wall Street (The New York Observer)

After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city?s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. �read�more��

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