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“Red is the new Libertine. Platinum is the new Marie-Antoinette. Leather is the new luxury. Veiling is the new seduction. Dior is the new Erotica.” Written on a wall in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), designer John Galliano?...
At a breakfast the following morning, Anupam Yog, a consultant at India Brand Equity Foundation, a quasi-government body behind selling India and Indian companies abroad, acknowledged the problems. On a recent visit to Brazil with Singh he was taken by the high crime rates in Brazilian cities. "That's...
The intensity of interest from Washington has been another wake-up. Although individuals generally must have at least $1 million in total net worth to invest in a hedge fund, regulators and Congress are sharpening their focus on the largely unwatched vehicles as more run-of-the-mill people become...
Risk figures can be twisted in more disastrous ways too. Last year's political best seller, The One Percent Doctrine, by journalist Ron Suskind, pleased or enraged you, depending on how you felt about war in Iraq, but it hit risk analysts where they live. The title of the book...
It is hard, now, to escape from the conclusion that Forward Together is a misnomer. But the main reason it's not going "forward" is that there's very little "together" about it - the Iraqi military is not keeping its end of the bargain. Although there are tens of thousands...