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...will prove a crucial framework for promoting future economic stability. Mangers at hedge funds and other unregulated market players are often reluctant to open their bets to scrutiny or reveal their positions in the market because doing so allows competitors to mirror trades and dilute profits. Many also view the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with tight regulations as time-consuming and expensive distractions from a funds’ ultimate goal: making money. These objections to oversight, however, ignore the potential damage that unregulated investing and high-risk betting can wreak. Unchecked hedge funds, unregulated derivatives traders, exotic trades, and obscure...
Naturally, this proposal would not meet with universal approval, especially since students are not the only customers to whom these restaurants cater. Restaurateurs argue that such a policy would be unfair and harm the local economy by pushing out profitable business. Lawmakers, however, must adopt a longer-term view. In 2000, the cost of treating diseases resulting from obesity—measured in insurance costs, Medicare, and Medicaid—came to the grand sum of $117 billion. These are costs that come back to affect all Americans in the form of rising insurance premiums and a struggling health-care...
...genders) have unintentionally crossed the line from objectification to using images and phrases that may encourage, normalize, and undermine the seriousness of sexual violence. This trend begs the questions: How can it be acceptable to use this kind of imagery? What are we saying about how we view and value each other...
...MySpace and Facebook differ: The rival Web sites had come to embody the two competing visions of digital identity online. MySpace represented the freewheeling spirit of the Web, where anonymity allows people to experiment with their identity and express their views freely. In contrast, Facebook represented a more structured view of online identity, where people authenticate their offline identity in the hopes of creating a community of trust...
Cell phones and GPS's are a no-no, trips to the countryside without permission are almost always forbidden, with the occasional but rare exception. Most journalists are shepherded by a guide wherever they go, which is usually to view monuments of Kim Jong il and his deceased dad. They are told to shy away from asking citizens political questions. While residents of Pyongyang are less afraid to interact with foreigners than, say, a decade ago, they "won't speak to journalists without permission," says Lankov. Even at the joint South and North Korean industrial complex at Kaesong, just north...