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...Last week, however, the p.r. team went on the attack. It came on the eve of ex-chairman Maurice (Hank) Greenberg's congressional testimony critical of the firm's current leaders and the bailout strategy. Reporters were given a document outlining Greenberg's role in creating a ruinous AIG unit and his 2005 ouster. A press release questioned why he should have "any credibility." Ashooh said the document was prepared internally, not by p.r. firms, and was intended to correct "misinformation" spread by Greenberg...
...linked to gold. After President Richard Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in 1971 and allowed it to float freely in currency markets, the subsequent dollar crash led to talk of establishing the SDR as global reserve currency. That faded when the high interest rates set by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to throttle inflation lured foreigners back to the dollar in the early 1980s...
Howard Dean The former presidential hopeful and governor of Vermont is Democratic National Committee chairman emeritus Change is brought about by those like Georgia's Randa Bronson, who became politically active after her Army husband was shipped to Iraq for his third tour of duty. Bronson registered thousands of new voters in Macon, joining millions who realized that, indeed, America did belong to them...
Media critics have increasingly pointed to Harvard Business School—the alma mater of former Merrill Lynch chief executive John A. Thain, recently ousted General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, and Bush administration Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox—as the source of the irresponsible activity that bred the crisis...
Admiral Mike Mullen is an odd one. He eschews the crisp, classic aura of command; he comes across as a no-drama, common-sense-dispensing country doctor from downstate Illinois (actually, he's the son of prominent show-biz publicists from Los Angeles). But as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mullen is still the highest-ranking U.S. military officer, and so it was a bit disconcerting to see him taking flak from a group of Afghan farmers and international agricultural experts in Kabul the first week in April. "The military is giving away free wheat seed to Afghan...