Instead, Chen points to financial motivators behind those promoting the notion of Chinese Jews, including academic, entrepreneurial and local governmental efforts to attract foreign tourists to Kaifeng and expand local revenues. Officially, the Chinese …
“Our investors are mega-high–net–worth investors, many of whom own multiple ranches of their own and have an affinity for the outdoors,” says Ellis, who spent 25 years with Wall Street firms including Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley. SRC …
Traditional publishers have fought tooth and nail to maintain higher ebook prices for fear that low-priced ebooks would cannibalize print sales, harm their profitability, and establish unrealistic consumer expectations of the worth of a book. By …
Although at first you can't get over the Body—that six-foot-tall, ultra-feminine frame that can fill any woman with self-loathing—it soon disappears into the background. Before long, all you notice is how personable … With a reported net worth of …
Formidable, expansive blinds in cascading green, blue, red and yellow cover its floor-to-ceiling windows (evoking Google, an organization that partially funds the space through its Google for Entrepreneurs initiative). At one of the long tables, a …
Between 1989 and 2000, when younger members of the Reagan-Clinton generation were entering the job market, inflation-adjusted wages for recent college graduates rose almost 11 percent, and wages for recent high school graduates rose 12 percent. Between …
In the summer of 1992, Bill Minutaglio, a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, stumbled upon an article about AIDS patients in cities across the country who were pooling their resources and paying local entrepreneurs to supply them with drugs not yet …
So the Obama administration finds itself in the odd position of making hugely consequential decisions about how strongly to resist China's expanding reach in the absence of virtually any high-profile debate in Congress or the media. Would more public …
To accommodate both, the Minangkabau make a distinction between high and low inheritance. “High … Minangkabau young people, especially boys, have always left their village homes to gain experience and find opportunities abroad – the Minangkabau are …