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How does the dynamic change once a “friend” becomes a “patient”? Can small-talk exist with a person you’ve once cut open, or will they now awkwardly try to call you […]
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St. Vincent’s Hospital, in New York City, loses $1,000,000 a day in caring for the homeless and uninsured. As the doctor and author explains, the question of treating such patients […]
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Imagine the shock of being told for the first time to grab a knife and cut along a dotted line on a patient’s body. Does the fear from this initial […]
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A conversation with the surgeon, Harvard professor, and New Yorker staff writer.
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The mortgage market indicated that what the banks faced was a solvency problem, not just a liquidity problem, says Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith.
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Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith says the question is, how do you achieve just a bit without getting too much?
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Vernon Smith sees an age of people creating derivatives markets on public policy outcomes.
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We forgot the lesson of the ‘roaring 20’s’ in the case of the housing markets and that’s what caused a recurrence; you see of a lot of the same conditions […]
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Even though the circumstances would be foreign to him, the great Austrian economist wouldn’t be surprised.
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Economist Vernon Smith has said that most bubbles do not bring down the entire economy when they pop. So what happened this time?
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A conversation with the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
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Like Napoleon, the great golfer let success go to his head. His tragic flaw was fearlessness. But Woods’ Waterloo need not be permanent, says Robert Greene.
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Can anyone learn to be fearless? Robert Greene (“The 50th Law”) considers a famously unflappable rap star and gives an emphatic answer.
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The “Art of Seduction” author moves beyond corny pick-up lines to offer practical seduction strategies, including one drawn from a fictional character who could “seduce a beetle if he needed to.”
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Why is it that we remember exactly where we were on 9/11 or the day Kennedy was assassinated, but very little of what happened on the days surrounding such events?
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How to negotiate the age-old power dynamics of romance, from flirtation through the “stable phase” of a relationship.
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Even during the recession, employees don’t have to be at the mercy of managers.
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Power and strategy expert Robert Greene analyzes what propelled President Obama to victory in 2008—and how he can avoid losing power now.
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Power-mad leaders keep appearing throughout history. Defeating them is never easy—fortunately, they often defeat themselves.
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Are those who seek power inherently unethical? And how can the rest of us avoid being manipulated by them?