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Anyone who thinks that economists practice a dismal science has never been treated to the vivid commentaries of Allen Sinai. "It's the forces of darkness vs. the forces of light," he says, describing the tensions at play in the U.S. economy. "Hate vs. love, like in the original Cape Fear, but the love will win." Sinai, president of the Boston Co. Economic Advisors, was one of five experts who convened in New York City last week for a TIME economic forum. The meeting was part of a tradition going back to 1969, when the magazine began inviting top economists...
...almost impossible to craft a stimulative economic plan in which the numbers add up without aggravating the red ink. "They really don't have solutions because the problems are so complicated nobody can solve them, not even within the next 10 years," said the Boston Co.'s chief economist, Allen Sinai...
...forum warned that Perot's medicine would be the wrong tonic to give the economy now. "It would be an absolute disaster to have a Ross Perot program in 1993," said Donald Ratajczak, an economics professor at Georgia State. "We would probably go back into recession." Concurred Boston economist Allen Sinai: "Deficit reduction at this time, when the economy is so weak, is the wrong way to go." That's because the painful tax increases and spending cuts that Perot advocates would take money away from consumers and companies, thus deepening the country's already palpable mood of economic gloom...
...will not work, a point that many Americans seem to be accepting. In fact, that is the light at the end of the tunnel. "A lot of good things are going on underneath the surface that will actually work very well for us two and three years out," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisors...
...reality, how many women our age would be attracted to a 57-year-old Woody Allen look-a-like dressed in earth tones? I know students often have relationships with their professors, but come on--this guy wouldn't have a chance. After describing a series of relationships with much older men, Juliette Lewis murmers, "What am I doing with the mid-life crisis set?" Well, that's simple. She's the figment of the imagination of a middle-aged...