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...Conan that day. That was material I was actually saving for my next special. But I thought, this really means something right now. When I did it, nobody had lost any jobs yet. It was just, things looked like they were about to get ugly. People were afraid that capitalism was failing and so to me, the idea was, maybe that's not terrible. As long as it's happening there might be a good view of it. It seems to mean more to people [now] because millions of jobs have been lost and companies have folded...
...Despite Bernanke's sharp macroeconomic intellect we're afraid that he may not be able to conduct monetary policy with the virtuosity of a maestro. - despite receiving mostly approval and praise, Bernanke's nomination drew some criticism from Richard Yamarone, director of economic research for Argus Research Corporation, for Bernanke's seeming lack of "real-world" experience. (CNNMoney.com, October...
...past," says Sgt. Assaad, an Iraqi corrections officer who was monitoring detainee family visitations at Bucca. "Saddam's days are over, torture is over. We will treat everyone based on the law." Maybe that's what some people inside and outside the wire at Camp Bucca are really afraid of. With reporting by Mazin Ezzat
Sounds awfully logical. So why haven't we stuck it to these guys? Because we're afraid they'll panic. "Unfortunately, we've built a system where if you hammer those guys hard, you're going to have a global credit collapse," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and whose blog, Baseline Scenario, has become essential reading for crisis buffs. The Federal Reserve and Treasury left creditors at Lehman Brothers adrift in September, and the repercussions were so dire that regulators resolved not to let such...
...seen that food companies respond to journalistic pressure (McDonalds no longer offers supersized stuff), so we need to be more careful about what we draw our attention to, what we ask for, and what we celebrate. Right now, though the intentions are good, the energy, I’m afraid, is completely misdirected.—Staff Writer Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...