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	Duma Key: A Novel Stephen King EDITION:  Hardcover MANUFACTURER:  Scribner RELEASE DATE:  22 January, 2008
	Blaze: A Novel Richard Bachman and Stephen King EDITION:  Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Pocket RELEASE DATE:  22 January, 2008
	The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel) Peter David, Stephen King, Robin Furth and Jae Lee EDITION:  Hardcover Comic MANUFACTURER:  Marvel Comics RELEASE DATE:  07 November, 2007
	The Dark Tower Boxed Set (Books 1-4) Stephen King EDITION:  Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Signet RELEASE DATE:  07 October, 2003
	Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5) Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson EDITION:  Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Pocket RELEASE DATE:  24 January, 2006
	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell and John Joseph Adams EDITION:  Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Night Shade Books RELEASE DATE:  01 January, 2008
	On Writing Stephen King EDITION:  Mass Market Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Pocket RELEASE DATE:  01 July, 2002
	Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6) Stephen King and Darrel Anderson EDITION:  Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Pocket RELEASE DATE:  23 May, 2006
	The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) Stephen King EDITION:  Mass Market Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Signet RELEASE DATE:  07 May, 1991
	The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7) Stephen King EDITION:  Paperback MANUFACTURER:  Pocket RELEASE DATE:  29 August, 2006

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Europe

Credit squeeze will hit poor nations

Developing countries face the threat of a financial drought in the next 12 months, as rich governments embark on a round of "capital market protectionism", corralling the funds of their battered banks for borrowers back home.The conditions placed on many banks as a result of government bail-outs are forcing them to focus on key domestic customers such as small businesses, leaving overseas borrowers out in the cold, according to analysis by Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC."If the flow of credit to ring-fenced sectors is to be held at prescribed levels, net lending to the remaining sections of the economy will fall by a greater amount than would otherwise be the case," he said in his forecast for 2009. "The most vulnerable area during this process could well be international lending."King added that this would "threaten an outbreak of capital market protectionism" - a more subtle, financial version of the protectionist trade policies which were widely seen as exacerbating the Great Depression of the 1930s.Most notoriously, the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US slapped punitive import taxes on a wide range of goods, as Washington fought to protect domestic manufacturers. It was followed by tit-for-tat measures from America's international rivals, and a dramatic slump in international trade flows.Clare Melamed, head of policy at Action Aid, said banks should be encouraged to take a long-term perspective. "There are two things in play: on the one hand, we can see that governments want to encourage banks to lend domestically, and the political imperative there is very strong; but they also want profitability, so if you can make investments overseas that are more profitable, then that's also going to be good in the long run for domestic banks - so it's a trade-off," she said.She added that developing countries could be hampered in their battle against poverty by a lack of funds from overseas investors. "The opportunity costs for developing countries, in terms of investors being more risk averse, are quite high, because that is where new employment is going to come from."Mansoor Dailami, a senior economist at the World Bank and author of its annual Global Development Finance report, said even without the imposition of protectionist measures, developing countries faced a sharp decline in capital flows."I think the concern we have right now is that we may see a significant number of corporates and sovereigns coming to the markets to refinance debts, and running into difficulties, even for short-term trade finance," he said. Investments into developing countries soared to a record $1.1 trillion at the height of the boom in 2007, but next year the World Bank expects them to total just $550-600bn. As this emerging market credit squeeze bites, Dailami said the Washington-based lender would be monitoring a number of countries with urgent financing requirements that could find themselves short of funds.He urged investors not to lose sight of potentially profitable opportunities in emerging markets. "I think from a medium-term perspective, the potential in developing countries is sound. If you look at the size of their populations, if you look at their investment requirements, particularly in infrastructure and social areas, there's a significant need for capital flows, both from banks and from equity finance," he said.Global economyCredit crunchGlobal recessionguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:07:47 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the article

Literature

RIP, Forrest J Ackerman

RIP, Forrest J Ackerman, the pioneering science fiction fan, editor and writer who coined the term "sci-fi" and founded Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. 4e left the party on December 4, at 92, after a long illness. of heart failure at home at the legendary Ackermansion in Los Feliz in Los Angeles. Among those who grew up reading Famous Monsters of Filmland was author Stephen King. Other childhood readers included movie directors Joe Dante, John Landis and Steven Spielberg, who once autographed a poster of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" for Ackerman, saying, "A generation of fantasy lovers thank you for raising us so well." Ackerman was a celebrity in his own right, once signing 10,000 autographs during a three-day monster-movie convention in New York City. This, after all, was the man who created and wrote the comic book characters Vampirella and Jeanie of Questar and was the ultimate fan's fan: a man who actually had known Lugosi and Karloff and whose priceless collection of science-fiction, horror and fantasy artifacts ran to some 300,000 items. Forrest J Ackerman, writer-editor who coined 'sci-fi,' dies at 92 (Thanks to all the readers who suggested this!) (Image: Forrest J Ackerman at the Ackermansion.jpg by Alan Light, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)...
Published: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:54:50 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article

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