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The article reports on a group of small investors in Canada, many of them retired people, who organized to force some financial services companies to repay the investments they lost in asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). Organizing via the social networking web site Facebook, they have also been able to influence government plans to restructure the ABCP market.

The article examines a competition held by the trade association Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) for technological innovations to reduce the industry's carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. Proposals in the competition to use eutectic solvents, an organic substance to dissolve wood and to reduce water use in the industry are discussed. The competition is considered as an indication technological innovations can address greenhouse gas mitigation.

Focuses on the negative consequence of a reliance among United States companies on convertible bonds known as quasi-commercial paper. How they work; Growth of this market; Use of these bonds by Tyco International; Suggestion that the failure of this market resulted in financial restructuring of corporations.

Discusses Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), which is controlled by the Sinar Mas group conglomerate of Indonesia's Widjaja family. Concern of creditors of APP, which suspended debt payments; Appeal of APP to foreign investors; Outlook for the cases to be heard in Singapore's courts.

Discusses paper and pulp, one of the least glamorous but most volatile of all industries. Price, which fell in 1989-1993, now heading back to their former peaks. The rapid turnaround; Question of whether the cycle will repeat itself; Pulp pessimists; How firms should position themselves for the inevitable collapse.

Reports that every year America's treasury takes nearly $36 billion in old notes out of circulation. How some of this money is now returning as stationary; Recycling efforts engineered by the Massachusetts firm Crane & Company; Additional information and analysis.

Discusses efforts to develop and implement electronic paper. Research and development efforts by a number of corporations; 1999 announcements of technological developments by Xerox, 3M, E Ink and Lucent; Two different technologies developed and their use of tiny plastic beads or capsules which are black on one side and white on the other; Benefits and drawbacks to both technologies; Uses for the technologies.

Discusses how lawyers, lobbyists, and assorted non-criminals (including government) legally steal the public's tax dollars and why the American public allows them to do it. Transaction activities in the US; Number of lawyers in 1960 (260,000) and number today (541,000); Number of national trade associations; Political lobbyists; Attempts to gauge the costs (and benefits) to America's economy of federal regulation; Five types of federal regulatory costs; More.

This article reports on a long-running border dispute between Argentina and Uruguay, as it stood in late 2006. Argentina objected on environmental grounds to Uruguayan plans to construct 2 large paper-mills on the border between the 2 countries. The Spanish paper company that was going to build one of them announced that it would not and the article speculates that it had given way under Argentine pressure.

Reports that America's International Paper, one of the country's giant paper makers, has decided to enter the European market. Plans and challenges.

The article discusses the crackdown on undocumented immigrants in India in 2019. The government has identified millions of people they consider foreigners who have no right to live in the country. Home minister Amit Shah announced plans to deport undocumented immigrants to Bangladesh. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to act on the influx of undocumented immigrants.

The article discusses decline in the use of carbon paper for typewriters and written receipts as of 2013, and mentions the use of carbon paper by New York police for evidence vouchers, in U.S. prisons for prisoners' letters, and by pigeon racers to record racing times.

Discusses the redesigned United States $100 bill, in light of the esthetics of paper-money design. Redesign due to security considerations; View that the redesigned Franklin bill is remarkably ugly; History of efforts in the United States to foil counterfeiters, while also producing beautiful bills and financial certificates; The role of engravers.

The article focuses on the white-paper protests that erupted in China a year ago, primarily driven by public dissatisfaction with the government's strict COVID-19 measures. Topics include the effective nature of the protests, the government's subsequent change in its zero-covid policy, and the ongoing repression of protesters through arrests and surveillance technology.

Presents information on the U.S. paper industry. Details about the deal signed between Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Fort James Corp.; Apprehension that capital spending in the industry will fall below depreciation; Discussion of consolidation in the paper industry; Information on plans of Georgia-Pacific for its cash surplus.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an October 30, 2011 article on the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia.

The article reports on the growing demand for forest products worldwide as of May 2021 as consumers favor them over steel, concrete and plastic. Also cited are the increase in prices of wood products, the 68% increase in global exports of said products including sawn wood, pulp and paper, and the changes in the industry like the consolidation of paper production.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Fade to Black" concerning the use of carbon paper, which appeared in the January 26, 2013, issue.

The article reflects on recent developments in the paper industry. It is observed that the industry has just seen a down turn because it is run by engineers who love to build fancy new plants with little concern for their returns. It is opined that the recent wave of mergers is caused by the fact that the industry has no other way to grow. It is noted that the acquisition deals may turn this industry into a competitive and global business like any other.

The article focuses on a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the leaked data on the tax of clients of Mossack Fonseca, a law company in Panama. It says that the leak has unveiled the offshore holdings of the firm's clients including politicians, and showed how the money was moved and hidden. It mentions the impact of political corruption on the society and economy.

The article discusses the role that private sector businesses play in economic development in China, comparing it with the impact of state capitalism on China's economic conditions. An overview of Chinese industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including their contribution to China's gross domestic product (GDP), is provided.

The article discusses the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's reforms, including his firing of a cabinet secretary and the Shia religious leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's support for the reforms. An overview of the impact that al-Abadi's reforms have on the country's politicians, including in regard to his efforts to prevent political corruption, is provided.

The article looks at the decline in several countries' use of electronic voting machines, which are being replaced with internet voting. Security concerns about the machines, such as the inability to verify electronic tallies or check for faults and the lack of a paper trail, are discussed. Canada, Australia, and the U.S. are noted as countries where some form of online voting is occurring in 2012. Topics include preventing voter fraud and hacking, errors on paper ballots, and postal voting.

The author speculates about whether paper money, no longer backed by gold, could lose its value if the world's major economies continue to run up debt. Given the dollar's role as a currency of last resort, some wonder if its decline heralds not just an economic adjustment by the United States, but a crisis of sorts in the value of paper money itself. Money in its present form is a relatively new invention. For most of human history money meant either gold or silver, either directly, or indirectly by means of the "gold standard" which meant, at least in theory, that all paper money was backed by gold. But it came to an end in 1971, when inflationary pressures in America caused the country's manufacturers to become uncompetitive and forced the country off the gold standard. Since then the world has relied on "fiat money", so-called because it is created by government fiat and is backed only by the promises of central bankers to protect the value of their currencies. It is the value of those promises that some are now questioning. Although central banks around the world still hold about 30,000 tonnes of gold in their reserves, many have been offloading their stocks over the years. Those who doubt the continued worth of paper money as a store of value point to two things. The first is that the price of gold has been rising even though official inflation is low. But the rise in the price of gold in particular has raised questions. The biggest of these--and the second main reason for concern--is the amount of debt that rich-country governments have been running up.

The article focuses on research which found that the share of economics papers in leading journals focused on pure theory fell from 1983 to 2011. Topics discussed the include number of National Bureau of Economic Research papers released in 2017 that featured the use of administrative data in the U.S., a study which found that white men in America earned significantly more than black men and benefits of sharing tax records with researchers.

The article comments on the move by the government of India to spend too much on defense but wasted much of it. India's armed forces have become among the world's top five after importing more firearms, ships and airplanes. The armed forces are criticized for failing to reform, restructure or revise doctrine. The effort of the defense ministry to address questions about procurement and promotions is also discussed.

The article looks at the money printing business. Topics include commercial banknote printer De La Rue's success in 2012 despite an ongoing climate of global political instability, how mistrust of banks has led to a higher demand for paper money, and the importance of trust between the printing firms and central-bank clients.

Compares British prices of toilet tissue to prices in other European Union countries. Quality and size of British products, including amount of fiber; Background of standards set by Andrex, owned by the United States company KimberlyClark; Variety of product available in Britain.

The article focuses on the outlook for newspaper publishing. "I believe too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers," Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, one of the world's largest media companies, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors last week. And yet, he went on, "as an industry, many of us have been remarkably, unaccountably, complacent." Murdoch's argument begins with the fact that newspapers worldwide have been losing readers, and with them advertising revenue. In 1995-2003, says the World Association of Newspapers, circulation fell by 5% in America, 3% in Europe and 2% in Japan. In the 1960s, four out of five Americans read a paper every day; today only half do so. Philip Meyer, author of "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age", says that if the trend continues, the last newspaper reader will recycle his final paper copy in April 2040.

Comments on the P.T. Riau Andalan pulp mill being built near Pekanbaru on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. How the $1.3 billion dollar project will become one of the largest pulp mills in the world; Economic impact on Sumatra; Foreign investment attractions of the island; Barriers to Sumatra becoming the next economic power in the region; Land rights, legal issues, labor unrest, and educational deficiencies; Environmental concerns.

The article gives brief information about books written by some of this journal's staff including "Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order" by Philip Coggan, "Orpheus: The Song of Life" by Ann Wroe, and "Young Wisden: A New Fan's Guide to Cricket" by Tim de Lisle and Lawrence Booth.

Focuses on several mergers in the pulp industry in the United States. The merger of Scott Paper and Kimberley Clark; Announcement by International Paper on November 6, 1995 that the company would pay $3.5 billion to acquire a controlling interest in Federal Paper Board; Predictions of slow growth in the paper-making industry.

Focuses on the efforts of U.S. retail companies to limit the sale of cigarette papers on their stores. KMart's plan of selling packets of cigarette papers only if they are attached to pouches of tobacco; Kroger's adoption of rules limiting paper sales to customers.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Going Soft," in the March 4, 2000 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Going Soft," in the March 4, 2000 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Going Soft," in the March 4, 2000 issue.

The article looks at data found by researchers that are challenging the claim that inequality is rising across rich countries. Topics covered include paper written by Thomas Piketty on the inequality crisis, factors contributing to the weakness of economic growth in the rich world, errors in existing inequality estimates and how they could be corrected according to research by Gerald Auten and David Splinter and variation in estimates of the long-term growth of middle incomes.

The article presents an exploration into economic conditions in the United States, particularly concerning the instability of the mortgage markets and its effects on banking and the trading of commercial papers. Theories on the possible future corrections in the credit markets are provided, citing the Federal Reserve's tendency to adjust rates.

The article focuses on the decline of demand for many types of paper products in the United States. Newsprint has suffered the worst decline in demand, exemplified by the merger of the two largest North American newsprint companies, Abitibi of Canada and Bowater of South Carolina. Details related to the purchase of Procter & Gamble's European tissue division by Swedish company SCA and corporate restructuring at International Paper are presented.

The article discusses the threat to scientific cooperation between the U.S. and China, with U.S. and Chinese scientists writing fewer joint papers, and a decline in the number of Chinese students and researchers entering the U.S. While concerns about technology transfer and intellectual property theft exist, ending or watering down the Science and Technology Agreement (STA) would be a mistake.

A correction to an article on university rankings which asserted that books and non-English-language research papers were not counted.

The article reports that the Gulf countries are transitioning away from fossil fuels, which brings the risk of social instability if autocratic governments fail to adapt. Topics include governments cut benefits and citizens compete for private sector jobs creating a sense of both freedom and insecurity with education as a key; and relationship between the state and individuals with rights being recognized on paper with political repression and centralization in economies off hydrocarbons.

The article focuses on planning of government of Japan to propose successor to Kuroda Haruhiko as Bank of Japan's head. Topics discussed include planning of central banks to tighten monetary policy since 2007, cap defended by the Bank of Japan by bonds of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Japan, and paper losses caused by rise in bond yields.

An image of a Bank of England currency note featuring author Jane Austen is presented.

The article focuses on efforts by businesses and interest groups to phase out the one dollar bill and replace it with a dollar coin. It states the U.S. is one of the few large economies that issues low-denomination bank notes (LDBN), with Canada and Great Britain having replaced their LDBN before the turn of the 21st century. It comments that lobbyists are trying to convince Congress to switch to dollar coins to reduce the deficit and mentions a Government Accountability Office study about the savings.

The article discusses the difficulties faced by African nationals for acquiring visas, while also mentioning that the Ugandan government has stated that passports will henceforth be rationed as the government is currently facing a shortage.

The article analyzes the possible victory of media magnate and former finance minister Andrej Babis in the presidential election in the Czech Republic set for October 2017. The ANO party of Babis topped polling, followed by the Social Democrats. Babis resigned as finance minister after Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka threatened to resign unless President Milos Zeman fired Babis over a questionable tax break he received.