The U.S House of Representatives rejected President Bush’s 700 billion dollar rescue bid aimed at bailing out Wall Street (though they couldn’t show this sense when their intelligent leader decided war was needed). With Wall Street’s Dow Jones index taking its biggest one-day points fall in history after the deal was denied, European share indexes […]
Recent innovations in automotive engineering have produced active safety systems ranging from side alert, often called blind spot warning, to adaptive cruise control, to collision detection and warning. What this means to the average consumer will change over time as these products become increasingly available. What this means to the automotive engineer is increased attention […]
In the first three weeks of July 1944, delegates from 44 nations gathered at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The delegates met to discuss the postwar recovery of Europe as well as a number of monetary issues, such as unstable exchange rates and protectionist trade policies.
During the 1930s, […]
