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...last two years, the Fed has increased rates an unprecedented 16 times, so real estate-driven consumption is at best yesterday's news. Tomorrow's story will be the sharp fall in U.S. growth as consumers face higher mortgage costs. Real estate prices will fall, and access to credit will tighten across the board. This dynamic could become particularly nasty given the record level of household and public-sector debt, and the U.S.'s massive external liabilities. Investor consensus is frequently wrong-footed by the market. In 2001-02, markets were gripped by the fear of deflation. Commodities were going...
...Harvard has had three weeks to fine-tune, seat race, and harness speed—a luxury that is impossible in the back-to-back frenzy of dual season. A series of lineup changes and substitutions due to injury have left Harvard with different lineups, a move both boats credit to increased speed and improved rhythm in the weeks leading up to Sprints. “As much as it’s easy to look at rankings and times between races, the sheer number of changes and what can happen from beginning to end shows you that you can?...
...vacuum.”At this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom.Donald Carswell ’50 died in March 2005 after a distinguished career at NBC. This op-ed first ran on June...
...wasn't dry or static." Players travel around a fantasy world, plunking down virtual cash at the mall or a car-rental agency, and earn spending money at any of the island's seven virtual ATMs by taking quizzes (after a brief tutorial) on such real-world fundamentals as credit, auto loans and online banking. Sample question: What does APR stand for? a) account percentage rate, b) average parcel rate, c) American paper route or d) annual percentage rate. For choosing d, you net $15 plus a shockingly generous 10% interest each day on your virtual savings account...
Give directorScott Elliot credit. The Brecht-Weill classic has lost some of its power to offend the bourgeoisie, but this audacious new production managed to outrage nearly every theater critic in New York City. Wallace Shawn's new translation goes a bit overboard in its ostentatious crudeness, but the show seems reinvigorated in every way, from the decadent-chic Isaac Mizrahi costumes to a terrific cast of singing actors--among them Jim Dale, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer and Cyndi Lauper--who make the great, astringent score sizzle again...