China and South Korea want returns and possibly access to markets, ideas and technology.Things that go bumpWhatever their motives, sovereign-wealth funds are sure to influence prices and markets.
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In addition to querying the efficient-markets idea at a time when doing so was tantamount to heresy, and carried significant career risk, he was a rare economist who recognized the importance of psychological factors.
That seems a pretty down-market idea.
It's a clever marketing idea.
"You couldn't come up with an actual marketing idea?
A Malaysian car wash owner's highly unusual marketing idea is shot down by the police.
A couple of kids come up with a brilliant Facebook marketing idea.
"There were tragedies on and off the track and this huge marketing idea.
In a sense, it's the antithesis to the traditional marketing idea of controlling the message.
