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A conversation with the surgeon, Harvard professor, and New Yorker staff writer.
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The mortgage market indicated that what the banks faced was a solvency problem, not just a liquidity problem, says Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith.
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Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith says the question is, how do you achieve just a bit without getting too much?
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Vernon Smith sees an age of people creating derivatives markets on public policy outcomes.
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We forgot the lesson of the ‘roaring 20’s’ in the case of the housing markets and that’s what caused a recurrence; you see of a lot of the same conditions […]
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Even though the circumstances would be foreign to him, the great Austrian economist wouldn’t be surprised.
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Economist Vernon Smith has said that most bubbles do not bring down the entire economy when they pop. So what happened this time?
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A conversation with the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
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Like Napoleon, the great golfer let success go to his head. His tragic flaw was fearlessness. But Woods’ Waterloo need not be permanent, says Robert Greene.
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Can anyone learn to be fearless? Robert Greene (“The 50th Law”) considers a famously unflappable rap star and gives an emphatic answer.
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The “Art of Seduction” author moves beyond corny pick-up lines to offer practical seduction strategies, including one drawn from a fictional character who could “seduce a beetle if he needed to.”
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Why is it that we remember exactly where we were on 9/11 or the day Kennedy was assassinated, but very little of what happened on the days surrounding such events?
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How to negotiate the age-old power dynamics of romance, from flirtation through the “stable phase” of a relationship.
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Even during the recession, employees don’t have to be at the mercy of managers.
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Power and strategy expert Robert Greene analyzes what propelled President Obama to victory in 2008—and how he can avoid losing power now.
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Power-mad leaders keep appearing throughout history. Defeating them is never easy—fortunately, they often defeat themselves.
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Are those who seek power inherently unethical? And how can the rest of us avoid being manipulated by them?
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Does Robert Greene practice the power and seduction strategies he preaches?
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A conversation with the writer and expert on power.
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After reviewing classified World Bank documents, Raj Patel concluded that a loan from this organization is more of a punch to the face than a help to poor nations.
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Markets put a price on things that can be consumed. What about those that should be protected?
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Raj Patel initially thought a global economy could combat poverty but eventually realized that the root causes of inequality need to be addressed.
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A conversation with the British author and activist.
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Nancy Koehn, historian at Harvard Business School, thinks it’s a generation that, before this recession, had not experienced failure.
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In some fields, the worst type of encouragement may be to doggedly stick with projects until their completion.
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There are everyday steps you can take—from anti-inflammatory drugs to a Mediterranean diet—that can reduce your chances of developing the disease.
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Perhaps the biggest misconception about Alzheimer’s is that the disease is entirely genetically inherited and is hence unpreventable. As the UCLA psychiatrist explains, there are a variety of emerging methods […]
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The myriad centers for treating Internet and video game “addiction” opening up across Asia meet a legitimate, clinical need because a craving for technology acts upon the brain in the […]
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In an age of cell phones, PDAs, and computers, the intense mental stress of continually paying only partial attention may be decreasing our memory capacity.
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Like everything else in our body, memory, particularly short-term recall, performs worse with age; luckily the best way to stay sharp is also the most fun.
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