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...couple of years the trickle will turn into a flood. When it's completed 20 years from now, KAEC will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Brasília and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...
...move to recapitalize the banks got an endorsement in global stock markets, which momentarily roared back, in many cases with record one-day gains. "[They] have headed off a full-blown collapse of the economy," says Anil Kashyap, an economist at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "There's a 0% chance of 1930s-type depression...
Source: World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009; for the full report, go to www.weforum.org
...attitudes, especially regarding the role of government. Consider what might be called "the tale of two Secretaries." Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who presides over an immeasurably more potent Federal Reserve system than existed in 1929) has acted with vigor to bring the full powers of the Federal Government to bear in the current crisis. In dramatic contrast, when Herbert Hoover asked his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, for advice on how to cope with the financial implosion of 1929, Mellon replied, "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate...
...library, I found an arrangement of [traditional gospel song] ‘Change in My Life’ arranged by a Veritone,†she recalls. “It’s a full arrangement written by hand—this was before the computer program—and on the top it said ‘Opps got it’ with a frown...