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...really short given that the Chinese economy is some 2.5 to 3 trillion dollars. There are so many things going on there and we have to teach about them and understand them,” Vietor said. “I think Kim [Clark] would like to find two or three real experts on China...
...America's choices in Iraq are meager. Short of a complete makeover, which would cost at least $1 trillion and take 20 to 30 years, the only practical solution is to apologize and give Iraq $100 billion to repair the damage we have done and put someone like Saddam Hussein in charge. Although the man's behavior was demonic, we have found that we cannot run his country without using some of his methods. Paul N. Nash Oakton...
...Google, all grew out of daring private investments. In the 1990s "suddenly venture capitalists became rock stars," says Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association. Since 1970 venture capitalists (VCs) have pumped $339 billion into start-ups; these companies have created 10.1 million jobs and collected $1.8 trillion in sales. But stars tend to flame out as quickly as they ignite. By the time the Internet-bubble burst, "vulture capitalists" were tainted as part of the lunatic feedback loop that sent valuations of newly public companies into the stratosphere. After three years of retrenchment, the community of some...
...firms like Man, a U.K. hedge-fund giant, are now marketing their products to people who have as little as $18,000 to invest. Although estimates vary, earlier this month the Alternative Fund Services Review, an industry publication, claimed that assets under management in hedge funds had surpassed $1 trillion. Another analysis firm puts the figure at more than $860 billion - up from $456 billion five years ago. To be sure, hedge funds still account for less than 1% of assets under management worldwide. But a Goldman Sachs?Russell Investment Group study released in 2003 forecast that the percentage...
...solutions to earth's 10 biggest challenges. Would reducing greenhouse gases or communicable diseases benefit us more than better education or sanitation? It would be good to know, since organizer Bjorn Lomborg, director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute, claims that taking up all 10 tasks would cost $1 trillion, while global overseas aid registers at under $60 billion each year. "As long as we're not spending more, we have to prioritize," he says. So will the developed world tick off the items on his list? Maybe - but as Lomborg notes, the West tends to "overworry about the problems...