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...Cajee said. “When it flows over China, it looks Chinese; when it flows over Africa, it looks African.” Lipman’s talk, titled “Spotlight on: Chinese Muslims” and jointly organized with the Chinese Students Association, stressed similar points. He described the diversity of Chinese Muslims, who vary from practicing Turkic-speaking Uyghurs in the west to non-practicing Chinese-speaking descendents of Muslims in the east. “I wanted to mess with [audience members’] minds,” he said in an interview after...
...average customer who is more interested in Miss. Right Now than Miss. Right, the supplier has minimum power in distinguishing her product. The high availability of competing female firms with similar products also undermines the bargaining power of suppliers...
...market in terms of convenience. And because of the undesirable brand of the Harvard name when latched onto a female. That said, Harvard girls can still do well by distinguishing themselves from their competitors and fostering more loyalty. If all else fails, female firms can still expand into other similar markets. Hey, the Business School and Medical School aren’t too far away...
...comes to chaotic situations, Hungary has seen the worst: The stark depreciation of the florint in international markets means that over half of the mortgages in the country (denominated in euros, just like everything aimed to tourists in Budapest) have become unpayable. Macroeconomically, the state has faced a similar constraint: Therefore, the World Bank, the EU, and—most notably—the IMF have agreed to provide funding to avoid disaster. On Thursday, it was announced the country would receive over $25 billion of international bailout funds to last through the year. As David Hechlam, a director...
...should come in. Europe’s currency is a true financial miracle—when it was created just over a decade ago, everyone thought it would fail. Milton Friedman famously predicted it would be a disaster, and the Bank of England had stress scenarios that foresaw a similar end to the monetary experiment. Yet, over ten years later and despite the fact that it was created with a political rather than economic agenda, the currency remains alive and arguably very strong. As with most things in life, adopting it involves a trade-off. A country gives up monetary...