Salt water came streaming into open subways.

The online discussion followed a predictable flow.

Money was flowing to those who had caused the problem, rather than to the victims.

There has also been an impressive outpouring of private support by American charities and non profit organizations.

Chinese savings flowed not into creating new assets, but into financial speculation and consumer binges.

Despite censorship, comments on Chen flooded both global and Chinese social media.

Unlike the financial junk pouring out of the US in recent years, covered bonds are a security that is worthy of the name.

As the crisis struck, capital flowed out of developing countries to shore up damaged balance sheets in advanced countries. Credit tightened sharply.

And they did. Stories of change poured in from all over India, from Nagaland in the east, to Jhunjhunu in the west, from Sikkim in the north, to Krishnagiri in the south.

Unfortunately, the funds needed to implement these initiatives have not flowed as rapidly as the rhetoric.

The outpouring of aid in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami brought hope to a troubled world.

And two months later when the main plant opened and hundreds of new workers, white and black, poured in to see the facility for the first time, they were met by the 16 foremen, white and black, standing shoulder to shoulder.

They will also confront a rapidly changing external environment and a growing need to manage capital flows more effectively, which will require much closer coordination between central banks and financial regulators.

Immigration to Spain, Italy, and Greece has surged, adding to longstanding immigrant populations in northern Europe and to the number of so called guest workers in Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg.

Worse still, much of the money flowing into the banks to recapitalize them so that they could resume lending has been flowing out in the form of bonus payments and dividends.

By the time that Deah, Yusor and Razan were murdered, Deah had already had raised 16,000 for his Project Refugee Smiles. Over the following month, donations poured in more than half a million dollars. With the money in hand, the friends and family of the three young North Carolina students decided they would carry out Deah s plan.

That dependence is analogous to the way in which money from emerging economies, mostly in Asia, flowed into the US in the 2000 s, when an apparent economic miracle was based on China s willingness to lend.

In the few short months since the peace deal was reached, Filipino and foreign investment has been flowing into the island. With nearly half of Mindanao s population living below the poverty line, these funds could not be more critical.

Following further reforms in the late 1980s, foreign investment flowed into Indonesia, particularly into the rapidly developing export oriented manufacturing sector, and from 1989 to 1997, the Indonesian economy grew by an average of over 7 .

Since their creation in Prussia in 1769 under Frederick the Great, not a single Pfandbrief has defaulted. Unlike the financial junk pouring out of the US in recent years, covered bonds are a security that is worthy of the name.

Investors, and the rest of us, would be much better off if these funds flowed to more productive companies, perhaps with an amount equivalent to what would be transferred to bankers bonuses redirected to well managed charities.

The importance of diaspora financing from the remittances of working class Indians that have transformed Kerala s countryside to the millions poured into high tech businesses in Bangalore or Gurgaon by Silicon Valley investors simply cannot be minimized, especially during a global financial crisis.