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...target. Another worrisome sign: fixed-asset investment spiked 43% in the first quarter, with the bulk of it going into the already frothy heavy-industry sector. Raghuram Rajan, chief researcher at the International Monetary Fund, warned last week of "signs of overheating," while Morgan Stanley's chief China economist, Andy Xie, asserted more bluntly that the mainland's economy was a "bubble...
...proof, look to South Korea, where conglomerates have long been "run like ancient tribes to maximize political power for the leading families," says Morgan Stanley economist Andy Xie. That changed with the '97 crisis, which caused the breakup of Hyundai Group and others and fostered an anti-chaebol backlash. Business life today in South Korea is marked by a steady stream of special investigations into chaebol-related bribery, stock manipulation, illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and fraud. Chey Tae Won, nephew of the founder of SK Group, was jailed last year for accounting and stock fraud. Chung Mong...
...Harvard Herbaria, all but literally buried in the construction and renovation projects that will advance the University’s molecular biology labs and offices into the 21st century. But those espousing the widely-held stereotype that University President Lawrence H. Summers is an anti-humanities, pro-sciences economist will find no evidence for the latter half of this epithet in this quiet corner of the North Yard...
Summers, an award-winning economist, discussed “the precariousness of resting Constitutional truth on the sands of social science...
...many in Bangladesh's intelligentsia to believe that they too are now being systematically targeted by Islamic radicals because they advocate secularism and tolerance. "How can you have intellectual freedom when you don't know whether you will come home safely in the evening?" asks Abul Barkat, an economist at Dhaka University...