News tagged with market collapse

You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our flawed understanding of how decisions in the present restrict our options in the future means that we may underestimate the risk associated with investment decisions, according to new ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Market failure expert says letting Lehman go was good thing

Approaching the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' demise, NJIT Finance Professor Michael Ehrlich, an expert on market failure, says that the Feds made the right move when they allowed the investment firm to go bankrupt.

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Wearing two different hats: Moral decisions may depend on the situation

An individual's sense of right or wrong may change depending on their activities at the time – and they may not be aware of their own shifting moral integrity — according to a new study looking at why people make ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?

(AP) -- Facebook begins selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. Two Associated Press business writers are debating whether the stock is a smart buy.

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wireless startup LightSquared files for bankruptcy

LightSquared Inc., which hoped to create an independent wireless broadband network in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.

Technology / Telecom

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Middle class woe

the American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists ...

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created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 13

What is the best way of stacking apples?

When stacking apples on a market stall, fruit sellers "naturally" adopt a particular arrangement: a regular pyramid with a triangular base. A French-German team, which includes in particular the Laboratoire ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Action needed to keep fish on the menu in 2050

The latest study suggests we may still be able to eat as much fish as we do today 40 years from now. But for that to happen, we'll have to change our ways, say scientists.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Technology transforms energy outlook

The U.S. energy picture has changed significantly in recent years, with vast, new natural gas supplies coming to market, revived solar and wind power industries, and new extraction techniques opening supplies ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Comprehensive security of built structures

How safe are buildings and tunnels in the event of fire, or if there’s an explosion or a plane crash? Are escape routes still accessible? Can people be rescued? Fraunhofer-Researchers and the Schüßler-Plan ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flying car a 'step closer': Terrafugia (Update)

Drivers hoping to slip the surly -- and traffic congested -- bonds of Earth moved a step closer to realizing their dream, as a US firm said it had successfully tested a street-legal plane.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 24

A policy of mass destruction

A new analysis showing how the radical policies advocated by western economists helped to bankrupt Russia and other former Soviet countries after the Cold War has been released by researchers.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 40


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