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...Economy, New Paradigm and Goldilocks Scenario are in vogue, the odds of a serious bear market arriving increase significantly. Nobody rings a bell at the onset of a downturn-rather, bear markets sneak in, like a thief in the night, while the investment community is sleeping, confident that its rich market gains will grow ever richer...
...said that "The World Changed on Sept. 11, 2001." The world didn't change. Global warming is still here, the poor are poor, the rich are rich, Africans are dying of AIDS, and malaria kills millions of children every year. The "world" changed for a fraction of the earth's population, mostly Americans, their allies and those who have been suffering from their attacks. Please be less ethno- and egocentric. The U.S. is not the world. Izabella Brodowska Montreal...
...accounting firms? Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 antifraud law, gave them a windfall by putting them in the business of reviewing financial-reporting policies. With the Big Four now making record profits, their story reads more like the rich get richer than true-crime drama...
...realities: all countries must join; the world's power plants, automobile fleets and buildings will have to shift to low-carbon technologies; a world "price" must be charged for emitting carbon into the atmosphere to provide a market incentive for companies and governments to make the changeover. And rich countries must help poor countries get on the low-carbon track by, for example, compensating them for ending the deforestation that leads to carbon emissions as well as a loss of biodiversity...
...beginning. There's steel production (up 25%), makeup sales (up 19%) and the number of "large domestic animals" that suffered from a shortage of drinking water last year (29.36 million). From rice harvests to sports medals, China's new census quantifies all the ways a poor country is getting rich. The U.S. leads the economic race, but China is sprinting to catch up. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] CHINA...