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| We are in the midst of . . . the biggest world-wide housing boom ever,��� declared Robert Shiller, the Yale economist and author of Irrational Exuberance. In August 2004, sales of new homes went up by 9.4 percent, the biggest increase since December 2000. |
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The Increasingly Bin |
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| Over the past 15 years, the United States has become the world��셲 sole superpower, dwarfing every other nation in terms of economic and military might. And while Japan, Russia, and the EU have fallen further behind, one nation has emerged to join the U.S. as the primary driver of global prosperity: China. In astronomical terms, we might envision the U.S. and Chinese economies as two stars revolving about each other, while accelerating and pulling a host of planets along with them. |
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Gone Phishing |
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| Cyber criminals have gone phi-shing ?and you might end up as the catch of the day. Phishing is the act of sending an e-mail that claims to be from a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the recipient into providing personal data that will be used for identity theft. |
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The "Efficient Marke |
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| The 諛팭ficient market hypothesis,?which Wall Street embraced for decades, holds that in a market where everyone has equal access to the same information, rational investors will set stock prices ?and the prices will reflect the generally understood information about the value of those stocks. No one has an unfair advantage ?and no one is supposed to be able to beat the market over the long term. This is the foundation upon which the $1 trillion index-fund industry rests. |
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Geothermal Energy Is |
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| Speculation, economic growth, and global tensions recently drove oil prices to around $50 per barrel. In a world in which energy consumption is constantly rising, the potential to tap geothermal energy is stunning. |
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