AIDS in Africa is said to be killing more people than conflicts. It causes social disruption as children become orphaned. It affects already-struggling economies as workforces are reduced. As an enormous continent, various regions are seeing different results as they attempt to tackle the problem. Numerous local, regional and global initiatives are slowly helping,...
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Vitaliy Katsenelson has updated his great presentation on the Chinese black swan with some new slides and a more accurate title (via My Investing Notebook/market folly). The Chinese crash is actually a grey swan because it is a rare, significant, but predictable event. Therefore investors have no excuse to get caught off guard. But...
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The U.S. initial public offering market has rebounded from 2009, and has been fighting a bearish trend the past two months. Dell Cypress Semiconductor Accenture Acer Adobe Systems
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Every day, a few more compelling reasons to opt for a stick shift over an automatic transmission are disappearing. Automatic-transmission technology … Dell Cypress Semiconductor Accenture Acer Adobe Systems
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Food subsidies in countries like the US are arranged in such a way that they encourage more meat production and unhealthy food consumption which become cheaper than healthy foods. On top of the environmental degradation caused by industrial farming, excessive meat consumption harms health. Some additional statistics, graphs and charts have been added that...
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House GOP Leader John Boehner said he supports a ban on all new federal regulations, after meeting Friday with business lobbyists who complained about uncertain economic conditions.Diodes Inorated Diebold Dell Cypress Semiconductor Accenture
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THIS column wishes respectfully to propose a temporary ban on references in political debate to both American greatness and American exceptionalism. This is not because Lexington denies that America is great and exceptional. It is. The case for the ban is that both terms have been emptied of serious meaning, converted into slogans and...
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