OK, there is a decent Oracle at Delphi allusion to be milked here, but this is a serious topic, so I'll move on without indulging.
Here's the bad news:
U.S. car parts maker Delphi has suspended work at a factory in Suzhou due to shrinking demand amid the global economic slump, a media report and a staff […]

Now that the Obama trade and foreign policy team is in place, there are new stories floating around out there about his China policy. The one thing everyone is nervous about is summarized quite well in this Reuters piece:
President-elect Barack Obama may face pressure early in his administration to use the threat of trade sanctions […]

I don't know about you, but whenever the economy gets bad, my thoughts go back to past recessions and periods of unemployment. For me, those things coincided with graduation from college and law school. Bad timing for me (twice).
I fondly recall getting out of college with a very useful degree in history (!) and looking […]