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...Management, based in Pittsburgh, Pa. "The weak dollar discourages foreigners from investing in our markets. And that could have a catastrophic effect." Foreigners hold about 12% of the U.S. stock market, 23% of corporate bonds, and 44% of the Treasury market. That's more than $7.3 trillion of U.S. assets, equal to 73% of America's gross domestic product, according to researchers at Bridgewater Associates, a global asset management firm based in Westport, Conn...
...bottomless and facilities could pump and dump waste with abandon. Times have changed. A pound of copper sells for about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There, a 4,500-acre community is expected to be built on a reclaimed polluting ground. Wheat grows there...
...alternative would be to allow asset prices and wages to deflate until the market finds its own equilibrium. But the government fears a negative effect on Hong Kong's corporations, especially its banks, which rely heavily on real-estate revenue. It is also afraid of massive defaults, because numerous homeowners are believed to be suffering from "negative equity." These misguided concerns have frozen the debate: no one seems to care that lower property prices would attract new home buyers and businesses, creating employment. Without bringing costs down, however, Hong Kong doesn't have much of a future...
...kowtowing to a political hack from the Chief Executive's office to silence a poll-taking professor. These leaders have sent a clear message to the academic community: "Don't make waves." But without intellectual integrity, can there be excellence? Without excellence these institutions are a burden, not an asset, to Hong Kong...
...freshmen have been really stepping it up,” Pell said. “We’ve got a really great young class coming in who’ve been contributing a lot, especially in the midfield. Developing them more is going to be an awesome asset to the team...