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...what should investors do? Instead of buying the dips and moving into riskier assets, they should sell into the rebound that will now unfold. In particular, they should reduce risk by unloading stocks in more extravagantly valued markets like China and India. And they should shift money into the safety of short-term U.S. treasury securities or into less economically sensitive stocks in areas like pharmaceuticals and food; these will benefit from economic weakness either on an absolute or relative basis, as short-term interest rates decline. The only risk to this strategy is that markets might recover swiftly...
...rest of the world will begin negotiating a set of standards to follow the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The new rules need to embody certain key 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...
Samuel Morse had perfected his telegraph only a few years earlier, but by 1848 the country was wired, from Boston to New York City to Washington to Chicago and New Orleans. Again, the shift was sudden and profound--from days or weeks to send a message to instantaneous communication. Today we take for granted synchronized one-hour time zones as a kind of natural fact, but only after trains and the telegraph had connected distant cities were the U.S.'s time zones reduced from dozens to four...
...future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with Paris brokerage Oddo Securities. "It's got virtually the entire world covered and has the size and reach to be able to shift aircraft to fast-growing routes wherever they are. That leaves Air France--KLM in a pretty commanding position for the coming years...
...still remember staring at my computer screen at the start of my first shift, gasping at the though of calling a stranger and asking them for money. How rude...