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alternative is that Japan keeps its rice until it deteriorates, while people go hungry. The full report can be downloaded from the Centre for Global Development Sadly, I don't think playing the Free Rice vocabulary game will be enough. Related articlesHow to Burst the Rice Bubble [via Zemanta]

In my post on Wednesday, I questioned the claim that the dollar value of mortgage fraud was surging, arguing that firms had just become more aware of fraud and filing more suspicious activity reports — but catching onto fraud before … How to Default on Your Mortgage and Stay in Your House Floyd Norris today finds one of the worst bonds ever underwritten: a securitization, by Merrill Lynch, of second-lien mortgages mostly originated by Ownit. The kicker? When the bond was sold, Ownit had already gone bust, a victim of the

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s Dan Primack thinks the suggestions that it’s aiming to raise $10 billion are false. … CBS would make a great target for Berkshire Hathaway, Portfolio.com’s Felix Salmon writes. …Salmon also has a nice take on why GE is selling its appliance business. It’s the same reason CBS is buying CNet.

How Unleaded Gasoline Slashed the Violent Crime Rate The paper, from the NBER, is 70 pages long, but the conclusion, from Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, is simple, and stunning: The main result of the paper is that changes in childhood lead exposure are responsible for a 56% drop in violent crime in the 1990s.

government has incentives to install leaders who have powerful incentives to repress anti-US groups in their countries. It is clear that under these conditions our findings offer a negative prognosis for democracy in intervened countries.Related Links Extreme Measures I: Bill Gross at Pimco Where New Investing Ideas Come From Dump the Cuban Embargo

has incentives to install leaders who have powerful incentives to repress anti-US groups in their countries. It is clear that under these conditions our findings offer a negative prognosis for democracy in intervened countries. Related Links Extreme Measures I: Bill Gross at Pimco Where New Investing Ideas Come From Dump the Cuban Embargo

and Martha Stewart Omnimedia executive Cyndi Stivers is taking over as managing editor of Entertainment Weekly's website. [Release]Related Links Why Murdoch Can Make Money On His Dow Jones Investment What Do the Journal's Readers Think? How the Bancrofts Changed Their Mind

Portfolio.com: Market Movers Why GE's Selling its Appliances Division GE looks as though it'll sell off its appliances business, and John Gapper wonders why GE is not prepared to invest enough in the business to turn it into a global powerhouse when it clearly expects someone else to buy it for that reason. I think the

KKR is forming a global infrastructure practice, but peHub’s Dan Primack thinks the suggestions that it’s aiming to raise $10 billion are false. … CBS would make a great target for Berkshire Hathaway, Portfolio.com’s Felix Salmon writes. …Salmon also has a nice take on why GE is selling its appliance business. It’s the same reason CBS is buying CNet.