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...into historical trends. As such, the author would ideally leave the reader to guess at much of what was behind these trends. Instead, Mullan excels in offering rather disparate anecdotes, that fail to cohere as a whole. Those anecdotes, however, are enlightening stumbles for repetition. Had this book been one-third its length, it would have guided the reader along a delightful journey through history. But 374 pages translates to being told, over and over again, that anonymous publishing may be the result of authorial mischief, publicity-seeking, or genuine need for safety.In the epilogue, Mullan finally admits that...
...According to The Wall Street Journal, "The most stringent pay restriction bars any company receiving funds from paying top earners bonuses equal to more than one-third of their total annual compensation." That means that a trader making a modest salary of $400,000 who brings in $50 million in profits for his firm would probably be paid less than $600,000 under the new rules. Most traders get bonuses at year end. Successful traders can make $10 million or $20 million a year in exchange for pumping up their employer's bottom line...
...roughly $460 million, or 20 percent of its total 13F listed holdings, invested in emerging markets. But by Dec. 31, those assets—then only valued at $224 million—had come to represent nearly 40 percent of its total holdings, even though Harvard had sold one-third of its emerging market equity...
...About one-third of U.S. children take vitamins or supplements, according to the study, which was part of the government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted between 1999 and 2004. Vitamin takers were more likely to be white; eat a low-cholesterol, high-fiber diet; come from a higher-income family; get plenty of exercise; and have better access to health care and health insurance. Which means that the bulk of these youngsters really didn't need supplements at all. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...risk test in which they were asked how they would respond to a disease outbreak expected to kill 600. The subjects were told that if program A were adopted, 200 people would be saved and 400 would die, and that if program B were adopted, there would be a one-third probability that all 600 would live and a two-thirds probability that all would die. Program B is riskier: you might save everyone, but you'll probably kill everyone...