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The Fed hasn't touched rates since March. Has Greenspan become a believer? The ever-rational Fed chairman delivers his midyear report to Congress Tuesday.
Unexpected, yes, but not inexplicable. Sinai, along with Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (North America), argues that today's economy can speed along briskly without inflation because of fundamental changes that have made companies more efficient than ever. Among them: the demise of the...
Meanwhile, according to a former believer, Aaron Greenberg--another early recruit of Applewhite and Nettles' (who were also known as the Two)--may be trying to establish himself as a leader of the remnant. Some survivors, however, view Greenberg as an Anti-Do because he once argued that believers had...
From 1976 to about 1980 the group lived in isolation in a camp near Laramie, Wyoming, where the cult's tenets continued to evolve. The recruitment drive from California to Illinois had collected about 100 members, mostly free-associating hippies, college students and would-be mystics. By Wyoming, however, members...
The Times then attempted to draw a distinction between wrongheaded cults and acceptable mainstream faiths: "The crucial safety break in most theologies is that the believer himself cannot choose the moment of ascension. Only the central deity can do that." America may retain a Judeo-Christian tradition, but the claim...