Innholdsfortegnelse for November 03, 2023 i Newsweek International

1966 “For the first time in its history, the United States is at least as concerned with Asia as with Europe,” Newsweek said following President Lyndon Johnson’s historic trip to Asia. Over the past five decades, the U.S. has intensified its economic and diplomatic focus on the continent. According to the State Department, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) “represents the world’s fourth largest market, and the United States is ASEAN’s largest source of foreign direct investment.” In September, President Biden spent several days in Asia, specifically in India and Vietnam. 1955 General Motors CEO Harlow Curtice “can scarcely contain his boundless optimism about the world in general, the U.S. economy in particular, and GM specifically,” Newsweek wrote. Since the United Auto Workers strike began in mid-September, Detroit’s Big…

HIS YEAR’S RECORD-BREAKING HEAT WAVES, MASSIVE STORMS AND DAM-aging wildfires have made the dangers of climate change clearer, in a more personal way, than ever before. Roughly three-quarters of Americans now say they’ve been affected by extreme weather in the past five years, a near 20-point jump in five months, and the majority believe climate change is at least partly to blame, according to a September poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Those risks have prompted a growing number of people to direct their dollars into investments that aim to tackle global warming and improve the environment—hoping to help save the planet and make some money at the same time. Popularly known as green investing, this strategy is part of a broader trend among both market…

FROM USING REUSABLE BAGS AND PAPER straws to turning up (or down) our thermostats when the temperature is at extremes, we’re all looking for ways to make more sustainable choices these days. That increasingly extends to the decisions that we make about our money, as a growing number of financial services companies have introduced green product options, from mortgages and car loans to credit card, savings and checking accounts. “Green financial products are a natural evolution of what conscious customers want,” says Jay Lipman, co-founder and president of Ethic, an asset manager that works with investors and wealth advisors on sustainable investing. Four in 10 U.S. consumers say they’re interested in enrolling in a green-linked financial product, according to data from McKinsey, with two-thirds of them saying they’d allot up…

LESLIE JONES, BEST KNOWN FOR HER STAR-MAKING TURN ON SATURDAY Night Live, is ready to share her story, on her terms and in her own way. She came up with her new book’s title “because a whole bunch of people [would] come up to me and go, ‘That’s Leslie-f******-Jones!’” In her book, Leslie F****** Jones (Grand Central Publishing), the comedian shares the abuse she suffered as a child, her path to stardom and how she emerged with a level head. “I don’t look at myself as a celebrity. I look at it like somebody that got a really good job and was just really good at it.” About that job, she said SNL “is a machine that’s already fixed the way that it is. It does not matter how wonderful…