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...growth driver over the last couple of years has been notebooks, and that's not changing. There's a shift from desktops to notebooks, and a shift within notebooks to come down in price as volume expands. Both of those trends are very good for us. We have entered a new class of notebook machines called netbooks, which are small machines with 10-inch screens. You don't use them for content creation, but they are great for simple things like surfing the net and e-mail. And they're taking off. They're at great price points...
...contrary. Computers didn't invent things like flawed program trading - people did. Program trading simply followed algorithms that people wrote. So while a computer may help make dumb decisions happen faster, I think putting the blame on computers when they've been such a driver of productivity is a mistake. Taking junk mortgages and calling them triple A, that's not a physicist's or a computer scientist's decision, that's somebody who is trying to pitch something...
...going to be big enough to drive the economy out of a recession. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the housing market. Until that sorts itself out, it's going to get worse until it gets better. And when it gets better, it will be a driver of change...
...that student interest in politics was not fleeting. “I do think this moment has created a lot of interest,” he said, “and I don’t mean simply the Obama moment. Interest has been on the rise. The real driver [in 2004, when youth turnout also increased] was the Iraq war, and when that turned sour, there was a real sense that things were really going wrong here.” Student voters themselves said they planned to remain committed. “Obama said that change won?...
...past 10 years and posting a 9.3 percent gain in fiscal year 2008, beating the endowment’s overall return of 8.6 percent. Private equity investments have taken a hit from current economic distress that has crippled investors’ access to capital—a key driver of gains in that sector. Harvard would not be alone if it did unload much of its private-equity portfolio, according to The Journal. The newspaper reported that the nation’s largest public pension fund—the $189.6 billion California Public Employees Retirement System–has requested...