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Highlight Reel: 1. On reaching 2009 budget agreements: "Some might think that state lawmakers are uttering a collective sigh of relief now that most have their new budgets in place, but that is not the case. Dread is more like it. If FY 2010 budgets follow a pattern similar to the ones in the past two years, new gaps will emerge after the fiscal year begins-in fact, some states already are reporting new shortfalls just weeks into the new fiscal year...
...when someone in the Obama Administration says something like "We want to reform Wall Street pay," what goes through your head? I hope they can actually follow through with it. But here we have folks in Washington - in the Fed, in the Treasury - who are also investment bankers, especially from Goldman Sachs. So it makes me wary. We're all implicated in this...
...workplace structured so that they're knowingly not there for very long - paved the way for the bust. I talked to bankers who said, "When we do deals like this, we're probably at the top of the market." They knew. It's not simply that busts always follow booms...
...Left Faridkot in 2005 to follow in his older brother's footsteps as a laborer; Qasab found work in Lahore and later worked as a decorator in Rawalpindi. Disappointed with his meager earnings, he conspired with a friend to commit robberies. In 2007 he came into contact with the LeT and joined their ranks, hoping to develop military skills. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...mandatory reductions in the rate of growth of their emissions. "Carbon-market access is the first and most powerful carrot and stick," she says. "Members of Congress can say that if countries want to sell us carbon credits after we have capped our emissions, we want them to follow suit...