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Dearly Departed Gaëlle Faure asks "How much access should family get to your accounts?" [Sept. 14]. Losing a loved one is a painful experience and most of us would want something to turn to as a way of staying close to those who have gone. We should appreciate...
After being burned, we humans tend to avoid what singed us and seek something soothing. High-quality bonds - in particular, the "risk free" ones issued by the U.S. government - were the most soothing investments of all during the financial crisis. While stocks were losing more than half their value, 10...
Ever since Jesuit monks brought coffee to Guatemala three centuries ago, raising the beans has been a losing business for small farmers. Conditions are miserable - try lugging 100 lb. of fertilizer up a mountain - and even though coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity, after oil, the...
Jon P. Swan, who took the class before graduating from HBS last year, says he feels like he has benefitted from the course. One of his favorite cases was about a couple with a sub-prime mortgage losing their home.
Nevertheless winning the Games is a huge boost for Rio. The decision promises to transform a city that has fallen into disrepair and has been looking for a purpose since losing its capital city status in 1960 to the modernist built-to-order jungle metropolis of Brasilia. The massive investment...