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...nation to ruin, it is a fair question as to whether the extraordinary growth of the past few decades has brought us any closer to finding a solution to the “economic problem.” At his most lucid, Stoll warns us not to hold our breath in waiting for technological innovation to save the day. The best suggestion that Stoll can offer us is an increased “efficiency,” but this seems like a band-aid solution at best. Even if we all use fewer squares of toilet paper each time...
Bernini The 17th century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini did more than give shape to stone--he gave it life, breath and a beating pulse. There's still time to catch the show of his magical portrait busts at the Getty Center in Los Angeles through...
John McCain was not quite 2 years old when his parents despaired of managing his tantrums; he would go into a "mad frenzy," he says, holding his breath until he passed out and fell to the floor. A Navy doctor offered a prescription: whenever McCain erupted, his mother would shout to his father, "Get the water!" Then his parents would fill a bathtub with cold water and drop their fully clothed son in. "Eventually," McCain recalls in his memoirs, "I achieved a satisfactory (if only temporary) control over my emotions...
...respectively. India's Sensex added 7.7%, while China's CSI 300 index, which measures both the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, was up 4.12%. Japan's stock market, which last week suffered the worst rout in its history, was closed Monday for a holiday. "I think markets took a breath and will rebound in the next few days," says Sean Tsang, senior vice president of Polaris Securities in Hong Kong...
...behavior of stock markets - which are aggregations of thousands of companies - is at best difficult and at worst foolish. Nonetheless, there were events that were hard to ignore. Insurance contracts tied to the debt of the now defunct Lehman Brothers were finally settled up, and - after much breath-holding - no other firms unraveled. In Washington, black SUVs and town cars of the G-7's central bankers and Treasury officials rolled into town, bringing with them the hope that the people with the power to fix things - assuming there are such people - will collectively figure out a plan. On Friday...