Toyoda said in the interview that the company won't start building any new auto plants through 2015 to keep fixed costs down despite burgeoning sales and what he feels are good prospects for global auto growth.

NPR: AP Interview: Toyota Chief Stresses Safe Growth

Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.

ECONOMIST: World economy

At the start, it was moving at 13, 200 miles per hour, and needed to be slowed down, to keep it from ending up a smashed pile of rubble.

CNN: Curiosity opening Martian frontier?