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A euro zone breakup: Will it wreck the global economy?

By Thomas Mucha | 11/30/11
If you're worried about the sturm und drang happening this week in Europe, you are not alone. The European Union, after all, is the world's largest economic bloc.
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Google buys Motorola: Genius or colossally stupid?

By Thomas Mucha | 08/16/11
You've got to love Google's audacity. Its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility — which makes phones that run on Google's Android platform — puts the company in direct competition with iPhone giant Apple.  The move has a strategic rationa
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China's economy tops Japan: Are you worried?

By Thomas Mucha | 08/20/10
BOSTON — "Chinese Economy Eclipses Japan," said the headline in the Financial Times. "China surpasses Japan," the Korea Times stated. "China rising on world stage," warned the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Fordzilla vs. Japan

By Thomas Mucha | 02/02/10
To those of us in Detroit, Japan wasn't a faraway and exotic land of neon, sushi and glamorous geisha girls. It was Godzilla — a murderous and grotesque monster determined to stomp out our fair city.
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Can China save General Motors?

By Thomas Mucha | 01/12/10
This week General Motors — the company that helped put the motor in Motor City — said sales in China surged 67 percent in 2009, even as the U.S. auto industy collapsed, further decimating Detroit's economy.
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Health care around the world: 10 things you should know

By Thomas Mucha | 10/09/09
While members of Congress are spitting on each other about creeping socialism, death panels to kill Grandma and the pros and cons of a public option, GlobalPost correspondents have been quietly searching for ground truth, health care-style.
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The Airbus v. Boeing slugfest

By Thomas Mucha | 09/08/09
BOSTON — Government subsidies. The words sit uneasily on some American tongues like poison. Or worse, French.