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...Singapore, to be close to the economic growth engine that is Asia, and also saw the launch of tradeable securities tied to a commodities index he created. TIME's Barbara Kiviat caught up with him by phone while he was on the road from Brussels to Amsterdam to ask him about what he makes of the state of the financial world today...
...years before oil starts skyrocketing again. I covered a lot of my shorts [i.e., short positions] a couple of weeks ago and bought more commodities; I bought more agricultural commodities. I'm not a very good market timer, but I've been going back into the market. Ask me in a couple of years...
...follow campaign news, you'll see this cycle in action several times a day, with stories sprouting, blooming and dying like flowers in time-lapse photography. Breaking: McCain campaign worker assaulted! Has partisan anger gone too far? Let's ask the campaigns! Is media coverage of anger biased? Let's ask ourselves! Wait--story was a hoax! Never mind! Next...
Accepting Blame Why do we hear so many Americans blaming their government for the financial crisis [Oct. 20]? Observing from the southern tip of Africa, with my little salary of $1,500 a month, I cannot help but ask when will Americans themselves accept responsibility for the problem and recognise that they have been living beyond their means for much too long? Are you adult, responsible people, or should your government also wash your ears in the morning? Henri du Plessis, CAPE TOWN
...dependence on fossil fuels for decades. McCain's embrace of alternative energy has given the issue a bipartisan flavor. And Obama believes that the quest for new engines and fuels for the future will serve as a "new driver" for robust economic growth. (It has happened before - just ask Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.) But momentum alone won't make it happen. Beneath the surface consensus lies enormous controversy. The cap-and-trade system of charging factories and utilities for permits to burn fossil fuels would be a major intervention in the economy, and opponents will argue that...