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Why does this happen? Why is a hedge fund like Global Alpha affected by events in markets far removed from its bread-and-butter exposure? The root of the problem is high leverage. For example, when this debacle hit, one of Goldman's funds was leveraged 6 to 1, so...
It's an air travel scenario that has become all too familiar for Marion Blakey, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A severe thunderstorm hits a hub airport like Dallas-Fort Worth, grounding all of the planes there for two hours. Soon those delays spread to airports nationwide, and...
When a new outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) was confirmed on a cattle farm in Surrey, southern England, in early August, Britain braced for the worst. In 2001, the last time the U.K. was hit by this highly contagious illness affecting cloven-hoofed animals, it led to the...
After the bridge collapse Minneapolis on Aug. 1, the Department of Homeland Security announced that there was no evidence of terrorism. Similar declarations followed the July explosion of an 83-year-old steam pipe in Manhattan and an August 2003 power blackout that affected 50 million people and shut down...
More than 400 farms were affected in less than a week in the Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak of 1967 - the worst outbreak of the disease in Britain until the infamous 2001 epidemic. The virus that caused the outbreak - later termed 01 BFS67 - was isolated, and a sample sent to a...