Asia
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Show Me Economic Expansion, Chairman Bernanke...it evolves from a raw product to a finished good. The door to America from Asia are the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach - combined they handle the majority of containers in America. Literally all imported consumer goods travel in sea... In this article: Ben Bernanke, The Fed, Inflation, The Conference Board, Recession, Christmas season, and New York |
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Peniel Missionary Society
...radio programme in June 1945 on KGER, a Christian radio station in Long Beach, California to raise funds for the ministry in China and throughout Asia. As many as 50,000 people listened on a regular basis. This programme continued for 46...
In this article: Port Said, Hong Kong, God, Los Angeles, Bolivia, and California
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Seeking Alpha | November 04, 2009
Four Reasons Buffet's Buying Burlington Northern
...Long Beach terminal that brings in goods from China/Asia. In the future... The US will be doing MORE business with China/Asia (West Coast) and less business with Europe (East Coast). We are in a recession. Railroads are a cyclical business.
In this article: BNI, Warren Buffett, Recession, Burlington, and China
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Seattle Times | September 14, 2007
The Seattle Times: That old man Fisher, he must be rolling ...
...dealer in the world. But underneath this plush carpet of an economy there are some sizable lumps, as Tang, the managing partner for Asia at law firm K&L Gates, told the Wharton Club of Seattle this past Tuesday. Strong points include a 9...
In this article: Boeing, Safeco, The Seattle Times, Harry Stonecipher, Mario Gabelli, and China
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www.washingtonpost.com | September 04, 2007
Shoring Up the Middle
...economy: the adjoining ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Forty percent of all imports to the United States come through these ports, including the vast majority of goods from Asia. They are unloaded by the best-paid blue-collar workers in...
In this article: Los Angeles, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Long Beach, Communism, Supply chain, Labor Day, Teamsters Union, and Wal-Mart
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www.latimes.com
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buying Burlington Northern
...country. Burlington Northern is the nation's largest rail transporter of coal and grain and provides a vital link for consumer goods from Asia to the Midwest, many of them flowing through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. "It's an...
In this article: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., United States, Coal, Los Angeles, and Chicago
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Reuters | October 20, 2009
FEATURE-Holiday miracle needed for turnaround at U.S. ports
...Target Corp <TGT.N> and Nike Inc <NKE.N>, use the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to pipe tons of clothes, televisions and other goods from Asia and the Pacific Rim to U.S. shopping malls for the holiday season. Many of them have cut...
In this article: U.S., Long Beach, Los Angeles, Nike Inc, California, Recession, and Unemployment
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Commodity Prices Retreat
...said Richard D. Steinke, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, the California port that is a major entry point for cargo ships transferring goods between the United States and Asia. "It used to be only importers had to do that."
In this article: United States, Europe, Long Beach, Natural gas, Inflation, California State University, and Goldman Sachs
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Dust-Up: 'Cash for clunkers' -- a clunker?
...is. We are destroying the clunkers, which could be very useful things in Africa or the poorer parts of Latin America or Asia; it would be cheap to load the cars onto some of the idle container ships off Long Beach and send them off. What...
In this article: Tax, Recession, Barack Obama, Economics, Warren Buffet, Michigan, and Waste
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International Herald Tribune | December 03, 2007
Two California ports team up to clean the air - International Herald Tribune
...and Long Beach. But the ports - the neck of the funnel for American imports from Asia - are embarking on a multibillion-dollar program being watched all over the world to repair, replace or clean up engines. Through the program,...
In this article: Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, Asthma, and Aggravation
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Description from Wikipedia:
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area (or 29.9% of its land area) and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.
Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Eurasia — with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe — located to the east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains and south of the Caucasus Mountains (or the Kuma-Manych Depression) and the Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. Given its size and diversity, Asia — a toponym dating back to classical antiquity — is more a cultural concept incorporating a number of regions and peoples than a homogeneous physical entity (see Subregions of Asia, Asian people).
The wealth of Asia differs very widely among and within its regions, due to its vast size and huge range of different cultures, environments, historical ties and government systems. In terms of nominal GDP, Japan has the largest economy on the continent and the second largest in the world. In purchasing power parity terms, however, the People's Republic of China has the largest economy in Asia and the second largest in the world.
- Area:
- 44,579,000 km (17,212,000 sq mi)
- Demonym:
- Asian
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