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Chinese regulators are cracking down on rampant insider trading and illegal bank lending for stock investments. A budding mutual-fund industry, seen as one key to the retirement security of hundreds of millions of Chinese, is forcing greater transparency in the markets while adding much needed trading volume to render the markets more efficient and liquid. Yet with so much remaining to be worked out, direct investment in China will probably not make sense for most people for at least another year...
...when a low profile is most called for, is the Indonesian government suddenly wandering onto center stage, with seemingly nothing to gain from a prominent role in the crisis, but so much to lose? It?s all fodder for the country?s conspiracy theorists, whose conjecture runs rampant: The nation has been infiltrated by Islamic radicals who are now controlling the agenda here by staging demonstrations, issuing threats, and possibly controlling the media...
...much could be done to get the House of Saud in order and head off internal threats. While Crown Prince Abdullah, 78, has been instituting economic reforms and trimming perks like free air travel from the estimated 30,000 members of the extended clan, the public still gripes about rampant official corruption, ranging from taking commissions on arms deals to muscling in on private businessmen. Sclerosis in royal succession is also a problem: because tradition hands the reign from one son of Ibn Saud to another, the current King, 80, and the next three in line are all well past...
When an audience member asked about Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 and his crusade against what he sees as a rampant inflation problem, Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen said it is not as much of a problem as the press has made...
...refuse to create the once-unimaginable because it is no longer unimaginable. The sag in airplane travel epitomizes the double-edged sword that imaginative free rein provides. While this license will force us to face and interdict the worst acts imaginable done by one group of humans to others, rampant credulity of imagination creates irrational and damaging fears. The key is to harness this imaginative credibility for vigilance and not paranoia...