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With that in mind, I asked a few of my favorite economic forecasters to name an indicator or two that I could afford to start ignoring. Three said they disregarded the index of leading indicators, originally devised at the Commerce Department but now compiled by the Conference Board, a business group. Forecasters want new hard data, and the index "consists entirely of already released information and the Conference Board's forecasts," says Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs. (The leading-indicators index topped a similar survey by the Chicago Tribune in 2005, it turns out.) The monthly employment estimate...
Later in his career, Joffe advised directors of Fannie Mae and represented independent directors of Merrill Lynch before the financial firm was acquired by Bank of America in January 2009. Joffe also advised the board of General Motors amidst talks of bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg News...
Farni converted on an assist from junior and fellow defenseman Leanna Coskren to put the Crimson on the board 1:18 into the second. But Dartmouth wasn’t prepared to let the game slip away just yet, and the Big Green retaliated six minutes later with a score from Sally Komarek...
Reese won the three-meter event by nearly 20 points, while she edged out Yale’s Paige Meneses by just 1.2 points on the lower board. Sophomore Leslie Rea placed fourth on the three-meter and sixth on the one-meter...
...tires, sending pieces of rubber flying. One piece of rubber apparently penetrated the Concorde's full fuel tank, which exploded in fire. As traffic controllers screamed "You have flames! You have flames!" to the pilots, the blazing Concorde plummeted into a hotel, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. (See a last hurrah for the Concorde...