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...financial meltdown. Increasingly, we as human beings create systems that are more complex than we can comprehend. If you're designing an airplane you create redundancies to try to mitigate bad outcomes, but as we saw earlier this year with Air France 447, when certain cascading events line up, they can lead to a disaster that you just can't anticipate. In the realm of the social, we create institutions like global, interconnected markets. By and large when investors are operating with some degree of diversity, when they're thinking about things differently - time horizons, trading strategies - the markets...
...felt that in many ways, how she portrayed herself [in the e-mail sent to students] was very different from how the reality might have been,” said Steve Teng ’10. “In some ways, I think she definitely crossed the line between personal and professional...
When asked about his play, he quickly credited his receivers and offensive line...
...Over the past four months, the Islamic Republic has faced two game changers. First, the June 12 presidential election spawned a vibrant new opposition movement, a political schism among the theocrats and popular protests that deeply undermined the hard-line regime's legitimacy among its constituents. Second, the gotcha revelation on Sept. 25 about a secret nuclear plant put Tehran on the defensive with both its enemies and allies - and undermined Ahmadinejad's U.N. media blitz, which had been designed to boost his post-election image. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...fine line to tread. China's army of retail investors - its citizens are said to have opened more than 100 million stock brokerage accounts - is driven by sentiment rather than fundamentals. They expect to make hefty gains from IPOs as a matter of course, and so capping price rises even temporarily may turn off many of them...