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...markets and economies across the globe. Its banks, which have slowly rebuilt their balance sheets for the past decade, have been dinged but not crippled by exposure to the subprime mess. But Chinese government policymakers and financial CEOS are looking on in horror nonetheless, and asking themselves a fundamental question: what lessons should we learn from this debacle...
...China the question is critically important. The country's financial markets are a work in progress. They are more open than they were a decade ago, when the Asian crisis rocked global markets, but they are still nowhere near as sophisticated, nor as liquid, as Chinese policymakers would someday like them to be. The value of China's currency, the renminbi, is still basically controlled by the government. There are strict limits on how much Chinese citizens can legally invest abroad. There are trade barriers on what businesses foreign banks can go into inside China. And there are no derivatives...
...meantime, LinkedIn is stepping up its game, trying to cement its role as an indispensable social network for people who still have jobs and provide an answer to the question, What can I do there? Today the company announced it was opening its network for the first time to partners, such as Google and Amazon, and offering business-focused applications created by outsiders to members. Eight applications, ranging from an Amazon book-review tool to a store-and-share space for a gigabit of files, went live Tuesday night. Expect more to come...
...eventually stop the increase in the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. These students had training in science, technology, mathematics and economics at one of the best schools in the world - they are probably a lot smarter than you or me. Yet 84% of Sterman's subjects got the question wrong, greatly underestimating the degree to which greenhouse gas emissions need to fall. When the MIT kids can't figure out climate change, what are the odds that the broader public will...
...would have been a shrewd move if she hadn’t come out with all the inanities,” said Huchra, who recently donated to the Obama campaign. “The more we learn, the more we think she’s not competent. The key question for me becomes whether I would be a better vice president than she would.”Huchra criticized in particular Palin’s view on scientific questions, including teaching creationism in public schools, which he described as “not consistent with a modern view...