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Table of Contents:VOL. 156, NO. 5 - September 03, 2007
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COVER STORY: MARKET SHOCK 2007
Risk returns - with a vengeance
Risk returns - with a vengeance
By Shawn Tully, Fortune editor-at-large
For years big players ignored obvious dangers and reaped rich rewards. Now they are paying for their recklessness, and so is everybody else. (more)
Buffett, Mack, Paulson ...
Some of the best minds in the financial world share their reactions to the recent meltdown, as well as their insights on what lies ahead. (more)
Subprime on the Rhine
By Peter Gumbel, Fortune
Asset-backed securities were a great business for Germany's IKB bank - until everything blew up. (more)
Housing markdown
By Jon Birger, Fortune senior writer
The subprime mortgage collapse is threatening the market for both lowend and high-end housing. (more)
Mortgage mayhem
The mortgage default mess is not easy to understand, but our Fortune graphic makes a complex situation clearer.
A brief history of fear
By Jerry Useem, Fortune contributing editor
A formula for panic: Shifting values, dubious financial instruments, no towering leader. Familiar? (more)
FEATURES
China's mobile maestro
China's mobile maestro
By Clay Chandler, Fortune senior writer
China Mobile's CEO has to please 332 million subscribers and thousands of shareholders, as well as the Communist Party. It's not easy. (more)
Flight of the honeybees
Flight of the honeybees
By David Stipp, Fortune
The disappearance of millions of bees has touched off a scientific detective mission to avert a pollination crisis. Can researchers get to the bottom of colony collapse disorder before it strikes again? (more)
FIRST
The Bear truth
The Bear truth
By Corey Hajim and Adam Lashinsky, Fortune
Entrepreneurial but plodding: That was the reputation of Bear Stearns. But then it strayed into high-risk hedge funds. (more)
The online numbers game
By Jessi Hempel, Fortune writer
Measuring web-page views is far from an exact science, and that's a big problem for online advertisers. (more)
Samsung moves up the ranks
By Stephanie N. Mehta, Fortune senior writer
Low-key Samsung is now the No. 2 seller of cellphones. (more)
Sumner's superjuice
By Tim Arango, Fortune writer
Sumner Redstone plans to live 50 years more, drinking MonaVie. (more)
DISPATCH
A glove story
A glove story
By Matthew Boyle, Fortune writer
Rawlings has made the fanciest baseball glove ever. (more)
COLUMNS
Couch-potato nation
Couch-potato nation
By Geoff Colvin, Fortune senior editor-at-large
U.S. workers can't compete globally unless they work harder. (more)
Apple's surprise weapon
Apple's surprise weapon
By Brent Schlender, Fortune editor-at-large
Apple's Macintosh computers are becoming its hottest line. (more)
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