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...These declining figures are in contrast to the growing mountain of financial entities that need watching, including 12,750 companies that file securities, 10,800 registered investment advisers, 4,735 investment companies, and 6,000 broker/dealer firms, according to SEC figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mary Schapiro Revitalize the SEC? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...weaknesses of every federal agency. If government was the problem, as Reagan suggested, the solution, theoretically, was less of it - and since reducing government proved impossible, as opposed to reducing taxes, there didn't seem to be all that much interest in actually making it work more efficiently. By contrast, Obama and his eclectic team of appointees give the impression of being positively intoxicated by the prospect of figuring out how everything works. Obama's closest aides like to say he isn't a "wonk" like Clinton, immersed in policy details to the point of immobility, but clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Promises New Destiny, Work Begins Today | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...contrast, the new calendar encourages students to compete for flash-in-the-pan job opportunities too short to do any real good. For those who have no desire to spend the break doing something careerist or academic—and I’d venture to guess I’m not the only one—three weeks in January is too long to spend on campus. The result is that people will be stuck spending the vacation’s entirety at home, watching the same episode of SportsCenter four times each morning, instead of reuniting with their...

Author: By Maxwell E. Storto | Title: A Break to Remember | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...probably going to have to swallow in the form of more spending anyway. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was not inclined to permit Democrats in Congress to look for ways to prosecute outgoing Bush officials over their conduct on the war or their authorization of torture. And Obama, in contrast to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is content to let the Bush tax cuts of 2001 expire in 2010 rather than repeal them. That is not a fight he needs now, even if it makes good economic sense to roll them back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Transition, Obama Comes Up Aces | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...around the table they went: Donald Rumsfeld reminded Emanuel that no one is indispensable. Sam Skinner talked about the importance of taking Sundays off. Former Reagan chief Ken Duberstein urged Barack Obama's incoming chief to remember that the President is always the chief and everyone else, by contrast, is merely staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Dick Cheney Prepares to Depart, His Mystery Lingers | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

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