Word: bankerly
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...Hard as it may be to see in these dreary times, this turn of events is not all bad for Harvard students. That the life of an investment banker has suddenly become slightly less glamorous is a good thing, because students will not acquire out-of-whack expectations from the start. It relieves them of the pressures to go into banking that so many students succumb to early on in college. Perhaps more of us will avoid the empty feeling that so many are feeling these days. This is a chance to take on realistic expectations about what one?...
...maverick, and like all mavericks she’ll do exactly whatever the polls tell her to do. Palin winked at you and now she’s smiling at Joe the Plumber, but really they’re all just waiting for Joe the Banker to get better...
...DELHI, INDIA Dream Over "No one dares mention the word shares in our house these days," whispers New Delhi software engineer Sandeep Goyal, "especially not when Dad's around." It's soon evident why. His father, a retired banker, is watching a religious sermon on a Sony flat-screen TV that, along with Sandeep's shiny new HP laptop, is a very visible sign of newfound affluence in the living room of the Goyals' modest home. "I warned him," the ex-banker says suddenly. "Never put all your eggs in one basket. He should have invested in government bonds...
...their money carefully and large, institutional banks that have gambled and lost is playing out across the American economy. So far, Bair has worried about Main Street while working overtime to limit the damage on Wall Street. In the past month, she's overseen the "resolution" (meaning, in a banker's lexicon, the "failure and sale") of the country's sixth largest bank, Washington Mutual, and helped negotiate the forced sale of superregional Wachovia bank to Citi (only to see the deal, in an embarrassing turn, break down when Wells Fargo snatched up Wachovia instead). She got Congress to boost...
...16th Congressional District, who are only two years removed from the abrupt resignation of Republican Representative Mark Foley after claims that he sent inappropriate, sexually suggestive e-mail and text messages to young male pages on Capitol Hill. That scandal helped catapult the Democrat Tim Mahoney, an investment banker, into the House; soon after his swearing in as the Representative of the Republican-leaning district, he told reporters that Foley had not reflected the "values and morals" required to serve in office...