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...system failed Annalisee, but could any system be designed to accommodate her rare gifts? Actually, it would have been fairly simple (and virtually cost-free) to let her skip grades, but the lack of awareness about the benefits of grade skipping is emblematic of a larger problem: our education system has little idea how to cultivate its most promising students. Since well before the Bush Administration began using the impossibly sunny term "no child left behind," those who write education policy in the U.S. have worried most about kids at the bottom, stragglers of impoverished means or IQs. But surprisingly...
...over the world, rockier now than they've been in over half a decade, rarely has an investing verity been more important: information - solid, accurate information - is as good as gold. When market pundits and analysts prattle on these days about the "re-rating of risk" and the lack of "liquidity" in the markets, what they are really talking about are gauges, however crude, of ignorance - and of fear based on ignorance. In the unfolding financial story of the year - the bursting of the global economy's credit bubble - "the biggest problem is we don't know what...
...core of this is, as Barings' Khiem says, a lack of information. It all started as a problem that seemed both predictable and containable: U.S. borrowers with bad credit history started (surprise, surprise!) defaulting on their mortgages. But that meant trouble for more than just the mortgage company or the bank that made the loan originally. Since the 1980s, individual mortgages have been packaged into bundles (so-called mortgage-backed securities) and resold to investors. Soon after came so-called derivatives, exceedingly complex investments that often trade based on the relationship between two or more underlying markets - mortgage-backed securities...
...that this phenomenon is limited to Europe. South Korean and Taiwanese banks got hammered on their respective stock exchanges last week because of fear - based, again, on a lack of knowledge - that they had bought a lot of paper tied to the subprime debt market. And in Hong Kong, Goldman Sachs issued a warning recently that some of the biggest mainland Chinese banks that trade on the Hong Kong exchange - including the Bank of China - were also exposed. In early August a spokesman for the BOC had said its first-half losses tied to subprime investments were "minimal...
...morning of our Belgium trip, my friend Liz and I boarded the first Eurostar train out of Waterloo International Station, blurry eyed from lack of sleep but excited for the weekend to come (worthy of its own postcard). As we waited for our train to pull out from the station, I turned to her and said, “You know what? Europeans are so lucky and I don’t even know if they realize how lucky they are. They can just hop onto a train and go to Paris for Bastille Day or Venice for Carnival without...