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In Recognition of, and With Sincere Gratitude, PLUS Foundation Recognizes for Ten Years of Outstanding Support. Delivering 1 Million Pounds of Food a Week 600 Member Soup Kitchens, Food Pantries and Shelters 120,000 Meals a Day.
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In Recognition of, and With Sincere Gratitude, PLUS Foundation Recognizes for Ten Years of Outstanding Support.
Delivering 1 Million Pounds of Food a Week • 600 Member Soup Kitchens, Food Pantries and Shelters • 120,000 Meals a Day
Greater Chicago Food Depository $30,000 Pay to the order of: In the Amount of : Thirty Thousand Dollars and 00/100 PLUS Foundation Conference Cause 2009 MEMO:
The Global Crisis November 13, 2009 Marvin Zonis, Professor Booth School of Business University of Chicago Zonis@MarvinZonis.com
Alcohol Purchases in U.S. for Home Consumption http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/
Michael Mussa Forecast(September 2009) http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/mussa0909.pdf
Air Travel January 2008 – September 2009 International Air Travel Association Zonis@MarvinZonis.com
Monthly Job Losses http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/economy/
Recovery in the OECD Area OECD, September 11 2009
Overview of the Global Crisis Rebalancing the Global Economy
U.S. Savings http://paul.kedrosky.com
U.S. Balance of Trade http://www.investmenttools.com/thestate/us_trade_surplusdeficit.htm
China Exports www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CNFREXPY%3AIND
Bank Lending “The top priority at the moment is to stop explosive lending. Banks should carefully monitor the process of credit approval and allocation, and make sure that loans flow into the real economy.” (China Banking Regulatory Commission, June 22, 2009) The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2009
The Problem Financial Times, February 12, 2009
Good to Be China? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125650177290906749.html
President Ahmadinejad and the Centrifuges The New York Times, April 29, 2008
New Iranian Nuclear Site http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10362358-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Iran’s Heavy Water Reactor http://www.isisnucleariran.org/assets/pdf/Arak.13November 2008.pdf
Who’s The Boss? Tom lehrer tokmwww.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/09/16/vova_and_dima_4eva?page=0,10
Nord Stream russia-media.ru/energy/ morenews.php?iditem=333
Nabucco Pipeline http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Nabucco_Gas_Pipeline-fr.svg/800px-Nabucco_Gas_Pipeline-fr.svg.png
China Celebrates http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01492/china-art2_1492832c.jpg
China Celebrates http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/china60_10_01/c15_20573215.jpg
The Global Crisis: Major Threats The Middle East
Mullah Omar JalaluddinHaqqani GulbuddinHekmatyar
Israeli Settlements WWW.commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:West_Bank
The Global Crisis Energy
Natural Gas Futures http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vsQ_G2OOspQ/SecZVyMqOJI/AAAAAAAAAi4/WZsFMeB_mFM/s1600/NG-1700-Natural-Gas-Futures-Long-Term -Chart-1990-2009.png
Sources of Gas http://www.technologyreview.com/files/33807/Nov09FeatureGas.pdf
Electricity Generation and Carbon Dioxide Emissions 2007 http://www.technologyreview.com/files/33807/Nov09FeatureGas.pdf
PLUS Overview of the Global Crisis November 13, 2009