Word: economisters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Then began the parade. One after another at Einhorn's bail hearing, his supporters took the stand in his defense. A minister, a corporate lawyer, a playwright, an economist, a telephone-company executive. They couldn't imagine Einhorn's harming any living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000 - only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family...
...Till then, it's up to you. The nation needs your $40 billion swirling around the marketplace, but don't do it out of patriotism - we don't want you feeling broke and used in November, either. Advice from your economist? First get your letter and do a little planning; then use the rebate - whatever it is - to make yourself feel richer. The rest will take care of itself...
...some GE advisers, this could mean only one thing--Monti wanted GE to sell part of GECAS to a competitor. That was never going to fly. "It would have been like asking [Ford CEO] Jacques Nasser to drive a Toyota for 20% of the day," says Yale economist Barry Nalebuff, who advised GE. Monti asked Welch to consider the terms and return that afternoon. Welch did, and rejected them. The next day, Welch called Card and flew back to the U.S. Jeff Immelt, his successor as CEO of GE, went to the Paris air show to pronounce the deal dead...
...central problem of the international marketplace is simply put: "There's no clear growth locomotive right now," says economist David Hale of Zurich Kemper. In the past 20 years, we've got used to the idea that, at any one time, at least one of the world's three largest economies--the U.S., the European Union and Japan--would be doing fine, so that even if growth sputtered elsewhere, there wouldn't be a disaster. The global economy showed the virtues of asymmetry during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Fiscal and monetary corsets constrained Europeans as they prepared...
...Greenhouse damage" per extra ton of carbon we add to the sky. (The figure, from economist David Pearce, is not the cost to clean the air, nor the benefit of cars, nor the toll of rising seas. It's just how much people say they'd pay for cleaner air when asked in surveys, divided by tons of carbon...