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...Barbara Kiviat: How can you tell that a job is going to be recession-proof...
...crisis may be exposing another, more insidious, flaw. As the industry has grown, it has become harder to tell good investment managers from lucky ones - and lucky ones from outright frauds. In a recent paper, Dean Foster, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and H. Peyton Young, a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, argued that the lack of industry regulation makes bad managers nearly impossible to detect. By making bets that have a relatively low probability of failing - say, 10% - an unskilled manager has a 90% chance of making good...
...another student wants to be president is, at best, a back-handed compliment. It’s like sticking a sign to someone’s back that reads “hubris.” When I talk to some of Caleb’s closest friends, they tell me the campus rumors about Caleb’s presidential ambitions are unfair. He’s never told them he wants to be president, and they don’t think he’s hiding anything. “A lot of people…will say that...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone...
...here with a how-to guide for section survival, allowing postulating alter ego to remain in its rightful place. 1) Talking about the reading in a book you’ve never touched: Take a sentence anyone else has said and note that you find some inherent contradiction. Tell everyone you’ve got to find this other passage that corroborates your point. “I’ll get back to you guys when I find it.” Helpful and smart? Someone’s getting an A. 2) Not strangling the person who?...