Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category

This is an Economy question about changes in the airline industry?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Lizzy Bits asked: Turmoil in the Airline Industry Even before the September 11 terrorist attacks, the major airlines were flying into stiff head winds. Slim to nonexistent profits, bankruptcies and buckets of red ink, poor service, late arrivals, overexpansion, frequent air-traffic control breakdowns, some of the worst labor-management relations in business, ...

Is China’S Giant Recycling Industry Going To Waste?

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Benedict Hunter asked: Every morning, Tian Wen Qui leaves his home under a bridge in Beijing to rummage through city trash cans until nightfall for empty pop bottles, plastic cooking oil containers and soy sauce bottles which he places inside two sacks he carries over his shoulder. On a good ...