Word: chicago
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reasons are well known. Debt-fueled and gluttonous, bankers around the world took wild risks that their bosses and regulators failed to stop. Throw in Bernard Madoff's massive fraud, and trust right now is as scarce as good credit. According to the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index, a new quarterly measure of Americans' confidence in financial institutions, faith in banks - on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 denotes no trust and 5 complete confidence - fell from 2.95 to 2.8 in the first quarter of this year; trust in bankers slipped from 2.6 to 2.5. Things...
...trust diminishes, so too do transactions. In a Chicago Booth/Kellogg School survey carried out late last year, trust in the stock market was considerably lower among those planning to take money out of it than it was among those intent on leaving their investment alone or even increasing it. Moreover, after controlling for investors' expectations of how the market might perform in the future, trust levels had a positive influence on the decision to invest more in the markets, the survey found. (Find out 10 things to do with your money...
...boards for that next great gig, it is nice to just take off and forget about everything for a few days," says Erik Moser, 26, who in March went on a weeklong ski trip in Colorado after getting laid off in January from his public-relations job in Chicago. (See how to negotiate a better severance package...
...Elena Kagan, 49, the Administration's current Solicitor General and the former dean of Harvard Law School, is considered a front-runner. Politically savvy and well-liked as dean, she met Obama when she was at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s. Respected by conservatives, she is popular at the White House. On the downside, she has no judicial or prosecutorial experience and has only served a little over a month as Solicitor General; Obama may want to leave her there for a while...
...Another person who will be seriously considered is Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit court of appeals in Chicago. A very smart and hard-working liberal, Wood knows Obama, though not well, and is the most respected judge among the likely candidates. She has a few knocks against her, though. At 59, she may be older than Obama and the Democrats would like. And she's from Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago, which means her nomination could appear politically provincial...