The BRICs: The trillion-dollar club

Economist | Apr. 18, 2010 (News Analysis)

Brazil, Russia, India and China matter individually. But does it make sense to treat the BRICs—or any other combination of emerging powers—as a block?

In any global gathering, the American president is usually seen, at a minimum, as primus inter pares: the one who can make or break the final bargain and select his favoured interlocutors. So in Copenhagen last December, as negotiations for a new climate-change treaty were entering their final ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Business
Topics: Global Economy, Brazil, China, India, Russia, Finance
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Apr 18, 2010 - 3:38 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Fabrice Florin (review), Jon Mitchell (review), Mickey Mooney (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Apr 18, 2010 - 3:42 PM PDT
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Jon Mitchell
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 by Jon Mitchell - Apr. 19, 2010

I found the piece very informative, but it was a bit editorial at times, such as when it used the adverbial phrase "less happily" to describe China's rising CO2 emissions.

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Apr. 18, 2010
Fabrice posted this story.
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Mickey Mooney
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 by Mickey Mooney - Apr. 19, 2010

I think that this was a good article on journalism. It gives the perfect amount of information, and also sites their sources very well. I like how it separates everything from paragraph so it's easier to understand what they are talking about. I think that this is something that people should look more about and think of it as a issue that is going on.

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