The British government will not tolerate another jamboree.

Indeed, there is no period in recent UK financial history that bears any comparison to those jamboree decades.

KOCHI, INDIA No other country has anything like it an annual jamboree of its diaspora, conducted with great fanfare by its government.

Now, the costs of the soccer jamboree, coming on top of the country s ongoing economic slowdown, are coming home to roost. Several analysts have concluded that Brazil s bubble has burst, and that the so called country of the future will remain stuck in the present.