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...markets surprised everybody and held up rather well, hovering around the break-even point at noon - but there's no escaping it: This is bad news, and Alan Greenspan knows...
...something white man will be refreshing for undergraduates burdened with a Faculty that is too diverse. However, consider that Rubin’s predecessor was Nobel-Prize -winning economist Amartya K. Sen, and the Class of ’99 got to listen to Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan. Add these guys to our new President ,and it really seems as though Harvard is trying to tell us something...
...problem as I see it is that Alan Greenspan is a one-trick pony. Raise rates, drop rates--the guy's got less range than Joe Pesci. Greenspan seems to think the economy is some fancy numbers system. I'm no economer, but I know that if I spend a dollar, someone makes a dollar, so it's basically a zero-sum game. What I'm saying is that someone is stealing from the economy. And until I catch him--and I think I have a pretty good idea which Fed chairman has the access to pull off something...
Rodriguez, however, pushes into uncharted territory through the cotton-candy dreamscape world of his impish villain Floop (a marvelous Alan Cumming), a Pee-Wee Herman clone who serves as ringmaster for a Teletubbies-styled kiddie show and dreams of-what else-world domination. Some of the elements in his towering, Gothic seaside castle reflect a vibrant visual imagination, most notably a sprawling floor that proves to be composed of giant jigsaw puzzle pieces. Others, such as the robot minions whose limbs consist of nothing but thumbs, smack of watered-down Tim Burton...
Rubin, 62, currently chairs the Wall Street giant Citigroup, and is the third consecutive economist to serve as Commencement Day speaker. In 1999 Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan spoke, and last year Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen gave the address...