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Climate Reality Eludes the Business Press
For the Wall Street Journal's editors, fear of a bigger government outweighs the fear of a warmer planet. | Read more »
Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies
Since 2003, prices of basic agricultural commodities have skyrocketed worldwide, threatening to further impoverish hundreds of millions. Supply and demand are only part of the story. | Read more »
How to Stop the Foreclosures?
If current policies do not change, it is estimated that, taken as a whole, up to five million homeowners could lose their homes due to foreclosure over the next few years. Which policies would truly help homeowners at risk? | Read more »
“They work here, they live here, they stay here!”
France's sans-papiers (literally, “without papers”), as undocumented immigrants are called, have recently taken a dramatic step out of the shadows—by occupying their workplaces. | Read more »
How to Make Mud Cookies
Through the alchemy of comparative advantage, Haitian "mud cookies," a traditional remedy for hunger pangs, could become the country's most valuable commodity. | Read more »
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Private Equity Exposed
- Orlando Segura, Jr.
- July/August 2008
- Issue 277
A former insider answers the questions: How do private equity firms make
money? How do private equity firms affect the distribution
of financial risk in society as a whole? And how does the
regulatory landscape in the United States give private equity
firms an advantage in the market? |
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The Global Oil Market
- Paul Cummings
- July/August 2008
- Issue 277
Why are oil prices skyrocketing? Many economists and
business analysts like to talk about "the fundamentals": supply (constrained) and demand (strong). But in fact the so-called fundamentals tell us little about why oil prices are rising rapidly. |
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