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...used to devise insurance premiums since the 18th century. With modern computing power, though, financial engineers captured, packaged and sold risk exposure in startlingly new ways. Buying protection against a bad corn harvest or a spike in interest rates was just the beginning. Over time, as instruments became more complex, a huge shift occurred. Risk itself became the thing to trade--and to make money on. In the process, risk was redistributed to the people who could best handle it, making everyone safer...
...short term, an era of risk aversion is sure to continue, as financial outfits, gripped by the fear that something more will go wrong--loans not paid back, a company on the other side of a trade going bust--pull back on everything from the creation of complex securities to credit-card limits...
...songs are free. (Granted, there are only 160 of them.) Since deep down, most karaoke addicts really want to be told how good they are, the site uses a Simon Cowellesque algorithm to score your performance. Co-founder Mats Fors says that after he and his partners managed complex websites for banks, building a karaoke site was easy. "We saw the opportunity for a good karaoke solution," he says...
...House. The Democrats widen their margin [This entire article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...This entire article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...