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The bursting of the American housing bubbleA speculative bubble can relate to assets that are real (property, land, etc.) or financial (shares, etc.) ; it manifests itself by an increasingly rapid rise in the prices of these assets. They end up by reaching such levels as appear excessive, even making an optimistic evaluation of the future profits which can be expected. The bursting of the bubble manifests itself by an opposite process, by a continuous and often brutal fall in these prices. -> read article... |
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| Philippines
War and Peace in MindanaoThe conflict in Mindanao has lasted for more than 35 years, as the Muslim Bangsa Moro people have fought for self-determination. To date the conflict has claimed 120,000 lives, many of them civilians. -> read article... |
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| Environment
Post-Kyoto is likely to be very liberal..."They make you pay for bread, the sky, the earth, the sun and the misery of your life." — Paul Eluard. -> read article... |
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