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...Florida is back, and if you thought eyebrows raised last time, wait until you read The Flight of the Creative Class. Florida finds that competition for creative workers has gone global (no shocker) and that the U.S. is about to miss out on the best talent because of restrictive immigration policies, a lack of R&D spending, the culture wars and stepped-up competition from abroad (cue the maelstrom). Not only are Americans more likely to get sucked into such cities as Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that...
...real shocker came with my follow-up question. How many farmers had used fertilizers in the past? Every hand in the room went up. Farmer after farmer described how the price of fertilizer was now out of reach, and how their current impoverishment left them unable to purchase what they had used in the past...
Bond Villains? No one ever said bond traders were gentlemen. But even by the bruising standards of this market, the rapid-fire sale of 12 billion euros' worth of European government bonds by a group of mainly London-based Citigroup traders last August was a shocker. Prices tumbled, and Citigroup promptly bought back 4 billion euros' worth of bonds for a tidy profit. Citigroup, the world's largest financial...
This, of course, would have been a shocker if Brown hadn’t believed it was going to start 1-0 in 2000 or 2001 when it held 17-7 halftime leads only to lose 42-37 and 27-20, respectively, or in 2002, when it jumped out to an 18-0 lead only to lose...
Another possible “shocker of the week” nearly took place in Dayton, Ohio, as Yale found itself deadlocked with the mid-major Flyers at 17 a piece heading into the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs were bailed out not by Payton Award candidate and quarterback Alvin Cowan but rather by running back Robert Carr, who had a monster day with 172 yards rushing and scored the game winning touchdown early in the fourth. And that’s great news for Yale, which needed Carr to step up this season in order to create a quarterback-running...