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...American businessmen here for a week of bird watching. The other "bird watchers" consist of Steven Galster, an environmental investigator, Anthony Suau, a TIME photographer, and Sergei Shaitarov, a Russian environmentalist who works with Galster. My ludicrously rudimentary disguise consists of a borrowed pair of binoculars. If the tiger trader asks me to name one species of local bird, we are sunk...
When they can't get an analyst, trader or market player to explain the ups and downs, and the janitor at the stock exchange is also busy, they have two choices. The first is to bring Wall Street into it, otherwise known as the market, as in "Wall Street has not been particularly worried about the dollar's slide" (the Times, April 8), or "the market was succumbing to the correction that some economists had been anticipating" (the Journal, April 12). Wall Street and the market are constantly fretting, shrugging off bad news, cheering good news and even looking forward...
...among the most sordid legacies of world history, plantation slavery subjugated everyone, white and Black, within a racially divided and potentially explosive social prison. Whereas contemporary prison labor specifically punishes the guilty for the crimes which they committed, slavery indiscriminately shackled the innocent for having fallen into the slave-trader's custody...
Nick Leeson,the 28-year-old trader at the center of the collapse of Britain's oldest investment bank, is begging to be tried in London rather than be "thrown to the wolves" at a "show trial" in Singapore, where he allegedly made hundreds of millions in bad trades that bankrupted Baring Bros. Unfortunately for him, the Serious Fraud Office in London said it had no evidence that would justify Leeson's extradition to the United Kingdom. Leeson's wife read his plea, written in the German jail where he now awaits a decision, at a news conference today. Singapore...
...firm, you get to keep a huge chunk of the profits yourself, but if you lose money for the firm, the firm covers the losses. For instance, Salomon Brothers lost $399 million last year, the banking version of finishing in the cellar, yet not a single banker or trader offered to help Salomon by reaching into his or her own pocket, which had been stuffed with bonuses in the past...