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Lindsey's influence over the economic policies of the new administration will be of particular importance, given recent fears surrounding the potential downturn of the economy...
...event of a downturn, economists say, Harvard students will not be the hardest...
...trimming entitlements when O'Neill cut him off and said, "That's the problem with you guys. As long as you're only tinkering at the margins, you'll just make things worse." A Bush official suggested last week that O'Neill, who has actually lived through a real downturn or two, may be just what the nation needs right now. Besides, he added, Bush and Cheney had only one constituent in mind when they chose O'Neill: Alan Greenspan. "And he was ecstatic...
...energy prices, interest rates and debt burdens, all of which take money out of consumers' pockets. But we're also seeing several new wrinkles, like the way the beaten-up NASDAQ appears to be pulling the economy down rather than the other way around. However shallow or deep this downturn proves to be, it is unfolding according to a fresh set of New Economy rules. Among them...
Popcap is a three-man company run out of an apartment in Seattle. John Vechey, 22, its business manager, says the company is already profitable, making money two ways in the face of the dotcom downturn: from advertisements that flash on your screen while you play, and through licensing fees that other companies pay Popcap to use its games on their sites. Popcap's Tetris-like Diamondmine is the No. 1 game at MSN's GameZone (where it's called Bejeweled). When I visited there last Friday morning, 9,032 people were playing it. Bejeweled was too soft...