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...brother and I began to discuss buying property together again?this time, in Shanghai. China's economy is growing at about 9.5% a year and Shanghai is the epicenter of the boom, yet apartments there still cost far less than in Hong Kong, Tokyo or New York. That gap will close, says Marc Faber, an emerging-markets expert who writes a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Eventually," he predicts, "Shanghai property prices will be higher than prices in New York...
That’s because issues of class remain much more explicit around the world than in the ambition-driven U.S. At Harvard, the ever-present gap between the prepschoolers in their BMWs and the aid recipients who worry about paying off loans remains under the surface. But just because we’re the leader in financial aid programs doesn’t mean we can’t do more to change our culture and push forward an agenda of equal opportunity (one way to start would be to give financial aid students complete funding for study abroad...
John H. Summers, Mahan’s thesis advisor in Social Studies, says that Mahan maximized on his unique experience as UC president to “articulate the gap between the experience that comes with a liberal arts education and what it’s actually like to go to school here...
...health care crisis that America is faced with. This president does nothing about health care—nothing. The health care system is a huge burden on most Americans and on most American business and the American economy and the President pretends it’s just fine. The gap between people who are doing well in this country and people who are struggling gets wider and wider. The income gap, the asset gap continue to get worse under this president. It’s not an accident—it’s the direct result of the policies...
...employee of the Gap reported a black male in his twenties stole about 16 polo shirts worth about...