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...more than 10 times your money in oil - and suddenly every dollar you put into the futures market controls well over $300 worth of oil. We can put a price tag on the whole market: for a mere $4 billion, you can easily control the fate of the entire multitrillion-dollar industry. Goldman Sachs pays out more than that in annual bonuses. (Read "The Reasons Behind Big Oil Declining Iraq's Riches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why There Should Be More Oil Speculation, Not Less | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

...impressive growth and real profits. JDS Uniphase last week announced quarterly net income of $114 million; sales increased 173%, to $524 million. Corning earned $525 million last year on sales of $4.7 billion. (Optical components are 70% of its sales.) Unlike e-commerce or B2B start-ups, where forecast multitrillion-dollar markets have turned out to be largely theoretical, optical networking, according to industry consultant RHK, is a $6.6 billion annual business right now and is growing 75% annually. "There is an urgency because everyone feels as if they are going to miss out on the best optics deal," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Optical Delusion? | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...cold war has been not only a multitrillion-dollar (and ruble) expense but also a grand obsession. It has distorted priorities, distracted attention and preoccupied many of the best and the brightest minds in government, academe and think tanks for nearly two generations. There is a long line of other issues awaiting their turn, and some have been waiting none too patiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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