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Despite the recession, Halloween is hotter than ever. According to IBISWorld, a market-research firm, Halloween sales will reach a record-breaking $6 billion in 2009, up 4.2% from last year. Retailers from Biloxi, Miss., to Brooklyn, N.Y., are reporting strong Halloween revenue. Over the past four years alone, the...
It's no secret that Michigan is enduring the most extreme effects of the nation's economic crisis: its unemployment rate stands at 15.3%, and the state is functioning on a temporary budget as legislators rush to close a $2.8 billion deficit. In recent years, the financial situation here has...
On July 19, 2007, Google reported earnings that were lower than what analysts had expected, and the tech company's stock price dropped 5% - but Raj Rajaratnam made $9 million. Allegedly, the New York hedge-fund manager had gotten a tip that Google's earnings would be below expectations, so...
Perhaps, but the release of the trial's full data has not quelled the early criticism that bubbled up around it. Some researchers contend that the second and third analyses of the data - including the "per protocol" analysis, which included only the 12,450 volunteers who received all six vaccine...
David Kaiser ’69, who signed the letter to Faust, emphasized in an interview with The Crimson that the global financial crisis has exposed fundamental flaws in the aggressive strategies used by investors around the world. He acknowledged that HMC has for years delivered spectacular endowment growth, but...