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...looking to be playing in a fake fort, who manages to save the world despite the bumbling of some idiotic grown-ups who don't understand the true power of the fort. The inevitably successful Fort Movie would spawn Fort Movie II: The Sleeping Bag of Secrets, with a bigger special effects budget and fun new sidekick, The Cardboard...
...precariously perched as these dominos fall - as Goldman's are today and as LTCM was in 1998 - you become part of the game. And if you are both highly leveraged and big, the problem that started in one insignificant little segment will now become your problem, and a much bigger one. Again, it's all about leverage. This is the case for crises in the past and will be the case for crises in the future. A world in which highly leveraged hedge funds share similar strategies makes it inevitable that what we are seeing now will occur again...
...entrance of a supermarket in northeastern Beijing with a salted egg in hand. Kong, her husband and 18-year-old son live on just 2,000 renminbi ($260) a month, and over the first half of this year, she has seen the price of groceries take a bigger and bigger chunk of the couple's fixed income. What was a 300 renminbi ($40) monthly bill is now 500 renminbi ($66) and prices are still rising. Hence the salted egg, which Kong is buying instead of meat. "We are still able to afford food," she says. "But if prices keep going...
...combination of window dressing and substance," says Steve Ganster, the managing director of Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based consultancy. "The window dressing is important politically, but I think there will be true substance that, like anything in China, will trickle down and have an effect in the bigger market." But until that effect takes place, the drumbeat of product recalls looks set to continue: on Tuesday, reports emerged that Mattel would announce another toy recall, over lead-based paint traced to a different Chinese manufacturer...
...industry says it's reduced the amount of plastic in bottles 40% over the past five years. But if we're really going to cut the environmental cost of bottled water, the responsibility lies with consumers. It may be hard to do without the car--a much bigger source of CO2 than bottled water--and uncomfortable to forgo air-conditioning, but giving up the bottle is easy. Just turn on the tap. [This article contains descriptive text within a diagram. Please see hardcopy...