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...Sanders Bernstein...
...shares - was never likely to be welcomed. As a multiple of Cadbury's profit before deductions for tax and other charges, the deal is worth roughly a third less than the average for takeovers in the global food business since 2000, according to investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Granted, the world is in an economic slump and there's no rival bid on the table, but Kraft's offer would amount to "the lowest multiple in a major food deal over the last decade by 18%," Bernstein analysts wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. (See more about...
Producer Nan L. Bernstein said that the “FNL” shoot was the last of a series of scenes that took place in a number of colleges in the Boston area, including Boston University, Boston College and Tufts University. Actresses Connie Britton and Aimee Teegarden were present at the set, according to Bernstein...
...that standard, we're doing O.K. But Bernstein and Christina Romer, the chairwoman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, made the mistake of providing a more optimistic baseline last January - a forecast in which unemployment peaked at 9% without the stimulus bill and stayed below 8% with it. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
Unemployment has of course passed both those mileposts and is probably still rising. ("I have noticed," Bernstein says dryly.) This overshoot says more about the inadequacy of economic-forecasting models than about the efficacy of the stimulus. But the White House cites these same kinds of models in claiming that the stimulus added between 2 and 3 percentage points to economic growth in the second quarter and 3 points in the third quarter. This may be correct as far as general direction - my unscientific assessment (a.k.a. guess) is that it is - but the exact numbers are probably bunk. (Read...