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...None of this should make stockholder fell better. Chaos and the difficulty of making predictions in chaotic time has even the most gifted traders, the hedge funds and institutions, by the throat and it throttling the life out of investors. In a market in which nothing is certain or nearly certain the people who own equities become more panicked by the day and their trading becomes less disciplined...
...extreme heat will wilt our crops. Battisti and Naylor looked at the effect that major heat waves have had on agriculture in the past - like the ruthless heat in Western Europe during the summer of 2003 - and found that crop yields have suffered deeply. In Italy, maize yields fell 36% in 2003, compared with the previous year, and in France they fell 30%. Similar effects were seen during a major heat wave in 1972, which decimated farms in the former Soviet Union, helping push grain prices to worryingly high levels. If those trends hold in the future, the researchers estimate...
...Tilghman announced in a university-wide letter last Thursday. Tilghman wrote that it was “prudent” to anticipate a decline of possibly 25 percent for the year, from a June 30 value of $16.3 billion. Over the same period, Harvard’s endowment fell by a similar proportion: 22 percent from a June 30 value of $36.9 billion. Yale University also reported losing one quarter of its endowment, projecting a decrease from $22 billion to $17 billion by year’s end. Unlike the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which Harvard Magazine has noted...
...plan has fallen apart like a cheap watch. According to The Wall Street Journal, "China's exports in December fell 2.8% from a year earlier to $111.16 billion, while imports in the month fell 21.3% to $72.18 billion...
...Yale’s a good team. They always play us hard, especially this year. They’re very skilled and they work hard all over the ice,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “I give them credit. They outworked us. When we fell behind, they didn’t get cocky, and they didn’t get away from their game.”Fraser scored his third and fourth goals of the season and provided the only offensive spark for Harvard all night. His first goal put the Crimson...