Sunday, October 14, 2012

Bachelor Padding

How lonely single men created China's dangerous real estate bubble. (Note: between 1998 and 2008 alone, 14.4 billion square meters of residential housing space were constructed in China, according to China Statistical Yearbook figures. That's equivalent to 160 times all the residential space on the entire island of Manhattan).

Read more in Foreign Policy. (Thanks, Ed!)
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Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .