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...Increasingly, so do investors, who are losing faith in hedge funds as a safe place to park their wealth during times of economic turmoil. Funds flourished earlier this decade by offering higher returns than investors could get in more conventional vehicles. Because they are largely unregulated, managers are free to employ a wide variety of sophisticated strategies, including short-selling (borrowing a stock and selling it in the hope of buying it later at a lower price to return to the original lender). The objective is to achieve - for hefty fees - consistent positive returns in good and bad markets...
...more and more pharmaceuticals are sourced in developing countries--an estimated $1.5 billion from China and India alone in 2007, according to a study by Credit Suisse--the heparin case has raised a fundamental question in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world: How safe are our drugs...
...answer is, Not nearly safe enough. What happened from September 2007, when the Baxter safety inspectors arrived and left, to the end of the year, when deaths and illnesses apparently related to use of the drug began to occur, is a tale of the risks global companies take in engaging the cutthroat ethos that is the underside of China's economy...
...House Committee. Before approving it, the House Masters needed proof that the endeavor had been fully thought through. “We wanted a brewmaster and we wanted a plan that didn’t involve making it in the bathtub. We have a bias toward medically safe procedures in the house,” Palfrey, a specialist in pediatrics, said...
...economy to make sure it never fell into depression again. They didn't feel unfree; they felt secure. For three and a half decades, from the mid-1930s through the '60s, government imposed order on the market. The jungle of American capitalism became a well-tended garden, a safe and pleasant place for ordinary folks to stroll. Americans responded by voting for F.D.R.-style liberalism - which even most Republican politicians came to accept - in election after election. (Read a TIME cover story on F.D.R...