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...interested. Today, investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top-tier corporate bonds are shunned. That should be telling us something. What is it? In the last few years, as the central banks of Japan, the U.S. and Europe took real financing costs to zero, or indeed lower, extraordinary amounts of debt-financed investment took place. Much of this investment is surely sound. Some of it just as surely is not. As the global credit cycle tightens, some of the more marginal investments will quickly become unsustainable. If at that point, central bankers were to remain obsessed with inflation...
...That was the focus in court on Thursday when Reade Seligmann's lawyer pressed for lower bail and a speedy trial. "We want a trial as fast as we can get it," attorney Kirk Osborn said. "This young kid wants to go to school in the fall and he can't until this is resolved." By this time we had already heard about Seligmann's cab ride, ATM records, cell phone calls and dorm keycard all suggesting he could not have been present when the rape is supposed to have occurred. Osborn and the other defense lawyers have raised enough...
...state has an interest in finding out what really happened that night off campus. Abiding uncertainty does not make for a gripping TV show. But somehow in these very public cases that are tried in the court of public opinion long before they reach the court of law, we lower our standards too easily. Maybe the conflict and confusion surrounding the Duke case will make us watch a bit more skeptically, suspend judgment a while longer, the next time either the prosecutors or the defense try to persuade us to render a verdict before a trial has even begun...
...biggest social impact has been made by three low-cost carriers: Air Deccan, SpiceJet and GoAir. A ticket on one of these is often cheaper than a good seat on a train?something that has made flying, once the preserve of the rich, an affordable reality, even for lower-middle-class Indians. Their discovery of air travel puts India's aviation sector among the world's fastest growing. The fledgling budget airlines still contend with a few teething problems, of course. Service can be brusque, and there's the usual curse of delayed flights. But these are the other realities...
...work cut out for her, with the company's wage, labor and health-care policies under fire. She caught flak last year for a leaked internal memo in which she suggested controversial ways to curb spending on benefits. But Wal-Mart liked her ideas and is rolling out lower-cost health-care initiatives for employees. Chambers will focus on other HR issues, taking part in a new advisory panel on ways to foster diversity and equal-employment ops, for example. "We've spent a lot of time listening to associates to make sure we are the best employer," Chambers said...