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CORN $3.52 per bu., up from $1.81 in 2005. The increase is mostly due to the ethanol boom...
Every great financial boom ends in tears. With markets, what goes up unreasonably must come crashing down, and when that happens, we look for people to blame...
...million-dollar view is also a reminder that these are boom times for women's magazines. "They are doing much better than the magazine business overall," says Edward Atorino, a managing director at Benchmark, a brokerage firm in New York City. "Everybody thinks the Internet is the only place where things are happening, but the women's magazine field is not getting the attention that it deserves." Ad revenues in Black's division, a unit of Hearst Corp., have tripled since she took over, soaring to $2.5 billion in 2006, from $841 million in 1996. The magazines are being...
...problem, as epitomized by the tech boom, is that the Street never knows when to turn off the money spigot. A good idea once is a good idea a million times, to the point of excess. In the hunt for ever more profit, everyone gets carried away, ethics and laws are at times breached, and then, ultimately, the collapse comes...
...famous, not so powerful, but strong in number and just as pivotal to India's future. Filing into the city in well-organized columns, around 25,000 protestors ended an almost four-week-long walk across India to highlight the fact that they have missed out on its economic boom. The poor, mostly landless peasants are demanding land reform. The government says it will look into the issue. It would not be the first Indian government to say it will...