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...executives who could find themselves ill prepared to deal with what the rocket scientists have wrought. "These mathematical models, they are not dealing with statistically definable facts that can tell you with certainty that if a market moves this amount, this is precisely what will happen," acknowledges Stephen Friedman, the chairman of investment-banking giant Goldman Sachs. "In the last analysis, you need to have people with common sense who can understand enough of what the rocket scientists are saying to translate it up the line," says Friedman, whose firm earned $2.7 billion before taxes last year, more than...
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...whim, I grabbed Volume 20 from 1973. After rolling through January, I came to the February issue, where, to my surprise, I found an interview with Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman...
...interview promised "a candid conversation in which the maverick economist advocates the abolition of welfare, social security and the graduated income tax." But I turned to Cyndi Wood, the Playmate of the Month. I liked her ideas on supply and demand better than Friedman...
...only fuel interest in the film. In Vienna, 10,000 children quickly volunteered to see the 3-hour 15-minute movie. Yes, on a school day; but playing hooky will educate kids in ! the lesson of man's inhumanity to man -- and of one man's humanity. To Michel Friedman, a child of Schindlerjuden and a leader in Frankfurt's Jewish community, Schindler's importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being: "a Mensch," says Friedman, using a good German and Yiddish word. "He is proof that if you wanted to help, even...