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...Israel's fighting officers came from agricultural communes, known as kibbutzim, and from villages. Over the past 15 years or so, kibbutz members have traded socialism for the materialistic individualism so prevalent in Israeli society. Nowadays, dynamic Israeli youngsters want to cash in on the country's high-tech boom and not spend their lives in uniform. The pool of potential recruits is also shrinking for other reasons: 11% of the nation's men are ultra-orthodox and excused from military service, 4% of draft-age Israelis have moved abroad, 5% are rejected for physical reasons and an estimated...
Many are now hoping the worst is over, but it's probable that a long and painful period of correcting the excesses in the credit markets has only just started. After several boom years, we are likely witnessing the early signs of a protracted decay in the world's credit cycle. Odds are, there will be more shocks over the next several months, and rather than starting to hunt for bargains now, investors would be better advised to remain cautious...
...major firms like Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns announcing in recent days that some of their own investments have been badly hit. Second, problems in the U.S. housing-credit-market have also spilled over into the world of "leveraged loans," which have been widely used to finance the global boom in mergers and acquisitions. While company balance sheets in most countries are, in general, still in quite good shape, this is no longer true for some of them, not least for the targets of private-equity buyouts and for private-equity houses themselves. As an example of how quickly...
...generations, U.S. house price appreciation largely tracked inflation. But around 1995, home prices began rising at an unprecedented pace. The boom created wealth throughout the economy, but also created risks that spread far beyond the housing market. Here...
...Such complaints are unlikely to mean much in a Russia growing prosperous off its abundant oil and natural gas reserves. But while Moscow puts post-Soviet poverty behind it, the residents of Sakhalin are experiencing the energy boom in a manner familiar to many citizens of oil-rich nations. "I'm a native," says Vasili Plotnikov, a pensioner who owns a tiny country shack just a few miles from the massive LNG terminal. "I don't see any plus. I only see negatives." Maybe Chekhov's hell wasn't so bad, after...