Mr Krugman, who pioneered formal economic analysis of what causes currency crises, points out that Asia's banks and finance companies operated with implicit government guarantees.

ECONOMIST: Disaster has spawned a new theory of financial crises

Typically, when a retracement is ending, it will be a difficult time for the investor or trader as the market momentum and the sentiment is at a level that causes many to question their analysis making it more difficult to act.

FORBES: Finding High-Probability Entry Levels

More in-depth research is needed, he says, to enable better analysis and understanding of the causes, means and impacts of attacks on education.

UNESCO: Education Under Attack: UNESCO launches new report

An American historian at Oxford University, Mr Johnson offers a brilliant analysis of the war and its causes written in simple, clear prose.

ECONOMIST: Sudan

An analysis by Ed McKelvey at Goldman Sachs identifies two main causes for the revisions.

ECONOMIST: American productivity

Further, the analysis of housing and its role in the economy gets what causes economies to grow exactly backward.

FORBES: Political Economy

Sir Richard Peto, the renowned British statistician who conducted an analysis showing "no credible evidence" that the cholesterol medicine Vytorin causes cancer, defended himself in a sharply worded letter to congressmen investigating the medicine.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Often, like Anna, they overemphasize a traumatic experience, forgetting to do proper risk analysis, or, like Jim and Holly, their optimism about the future causes them to take more risk than they should.

FORBES: Risk: Are You Willing?

To accommodate, threat analysis was replaced by an analytical process that focuses almost exclusively on the war's imputed underlying causes.

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