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...which will add diversification, solidity and stability to our future results," Santander chairman Emilio Botín proclaimed. So has the predicted round of consolidation begun at last? Er, not really. "This is not the beginning of cross-border banking mergers in the euro zone," says Francesco Giavazzi, an economist at Milan's Bocconi University. If anything, Giavazzi says, Santander's move in Britain demonstrates how many barriers remain to such transnational deals. Santander had already been blocked from taking over France's Société Générale in 1999 because the bid came from abroad...
...FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, economist, Bocconi University
Despite his positive experience as part of the Kerry team—and in spite of his Washington experience as the chief economist for the federal Department of Labor from 1993 to 1994—Katz said he has no intention of permanently joining a President Kerry in the nation’s capital if asked...
...Julianne Malveaux, an economist, commentator and author, said that “financial literacy and financial access” would bring the black community closer to economic empowerment...
Obama’s parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. His father, who shares his exotic and unusual name, moved back to Kenya, where he worked as a successful economist during Obama’s childhood. His mother, who is white and from Kansas, moved the family to Honolulu, where she raised Obama with her parents. Obama’s mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager, and the family moved to Jakarta for four years...