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...collaboration, and pioneering as an experiment in democracy. "It's a completely unique opportunity to get as close as you can to the game without actually being a player or being a manager," says Will Brooks, the 36-year-old former football journalist behind the project who puts his faith firmly in the wisdom of crowds. "Newspapers, radio phone-in shows and pundits spend hours after games talking about what team they would have picked and discussing tactics, but to what end? At least with this people get to put their money where their mouth...
Such doubts are fueling a broader loss of faith in U.S. assets. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the dollar's stunning decline. Since the start of 2006, it has plunged 24% against the euro and 18% against the British pound. But how big a problem is a weak dollar, and for whom? It might pain U.S. tourists shopping in cities like London or Paris. And it's a mounting worry for European and Asian manufacturers doing battle with U.S. exporters, whose products are made cheaper on the global market by a dwindling dollar. But for these U.S. manufacturers...
Declining faith in the dollar also helps to explain the surge in prices of a host of commodities - a classic hedge against currency instability. This includes the spike in oil, which has been further boosted by soaring demand, political turmoil in the Middle East and rampant speculation by trend-following investors. "Four times in the last 40 years we've had major disruptions in global oil supplies coming from geopolitical events in the Middle East," says Lewis Alexander, chief economist at Citi. "If you were to see one of those scenarios play out, that would be a big additional shock...
...Harvard student.“Looking at the whole picture of college, it’s been incredible,” Van Niel says. “I really couldn’t have asked for anything more. It’s a little bit of a leap of faith to try to do all these things and keep all these balls in the air and more or less, I think I’ve been able to do that.”Even though the praise has only come recently, singing is nothing new for Van Niel. He?...
...Sadrists assume that SIIC and its allies will continue postponing provincial elections to deny the Sadrists what they say is their rightful level of representation. Agreements and cease-fires aside, the Sadrists still put less faith in the power of democracy than they do in the power of their militia. "Of course, [because] the Sadrist movement has a base in the street," says Ali al-Mayali, a Sadrist member of parliament. "[It is] a base the other won't have - could never dream of having." In southern Iraq, political disputes are still more likely to be solved in the streets...