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...decades, the mantra about Wall Street has gone from "Greed is good" to "Banks are bad." The winds of a new Depression demand that that salutary trend of the movie '30s be revived. Oliver Stone, get to work. In the meantime, with brilliant bloody timing, here comes The International, a spy thriller with a theme worth mulling: that moneymen are the root of all evil...
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, except that right now everyone wants a little piece of it. The mob has been chanting for months, ever since former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrived in late September on Capitol Hill to warn of disaster, pass around his three-page plan and demand $700 billion to fix the problem. Most members of Congress were so spooked they were ready to write a check, until their phone lines started melting with the angry voices of taxpayers demanding details about the likely return on the investment. But even the minimal strings attached did not prevent...
...decrease in demand for workers and parts does have an upside for those still in the race. "The parts we buy are in some instances half-price from last year, so your $600,000 engine program may cost $300,000 this year," says Kalik. "Same engine, same everything - just tremendously less demand. Therefore the engine builders and chassis builders are hungry for the dollar, so they'll work for less...
...Stimulus or no, Kan, one of the fiercest critics of the rollout, maintains that the vast majority of China's mobile users have no interest in paying for faster phones. "Until now, 3G service providers across the world are all having a hard time struggling with little market demand...
...writing legislation that creates jobs and transforms the economy by emphasizing innovation and education. He noted that the NIH funding would provide short-term boosts to the economy since the stimulus is designed for a two-year period. “[There is] pent up scientific demand for increased funding, and there’s the capacity to deliver quickly on quality research,” Casey said, adding that the Human Genome Project had opened many avenues for scientific inquiry but lack of funding has subsequently stymied research efforts. “Since 2003, [NIH] funding has essentially been...