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That made headlines around the world. The next day prices on the sizzling Shanghai stock exchange-which lots of people had warned was overpriced-fell 8.8%. Stock prices began dropping in Europe, then in the U.S. There was a perfectly rational pattern to the way prices tumbled: emerging-market stock...
There was a perfectly rational pattern to the way prices tumbled: emerging-market stock prices fell more than those in developing countries. Small stocks lost more value than big stocks. Junk-bond prices fell while Treasury bonds rose. But why then?
There is, however, a mind-reading machine that certain doctors and nurses can use in cases like Charlene's and Jacob's. Its use is frowned upon by many in administrative positions and specific measures to render these machines useless, most notably long forms, committee meetings and menu-driven care...
“Go back to Baghdad” is a request so ludicrous that it is almost comical. But that is exactly what the United States told Ph.D. candidate Omar al-Dewachi—a native Iraqi who has already undergone extensive background checks and been admitted to the...
Thankfully, the group remains relatively small, although they have stepped up their efforts at recruiting on college campuses. My fear is not that the LaRouchians will successfully recruit Harvard students into their cult, but that they will continue to be a constant blight on our campus—supposedly a...