Word: interestingness
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For the adults employing them, the relationship is different. You hire someone to clean your house and do your laundry. But in many cases, these women worked for the same white family for generation after generation. That, to me, is the difference between an employee and someone you feel close...
Did you talk to any African-American women who lived through that time period? I did get to interview a white woman and her maid who were together in the 1960s. It was so interesting to compare their perspectives. The white woman's strongest memory of her maid was of...
For investors who are willing to venture into stocks, what parts of the market look most promising? The rally has more to go, maybe another 10%. Within that, what's interesting from my perspective is this: Across our organization we have a much larger weighting in technology. Probably 8 out...
"The interesting dynamic here is that you used to be penalized by the public for not being civil," says Republican strategist John Feehery, who worked for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. "Now it's almost glorified." We still don't know whether this sort of fly-by-night notoriety of...
Until recently, economists had done shockingly little work in this area. "Nobody had looked at the flip side, which is, Can there be costs?" says Thomas Philippon, a young Frenchman who teaches finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. "That is because it's harder to measure...