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When American banks attempt to reach national scale in these same lines of business, their explicit intent is to be able to compete with these "monoline" companies. The banks aren't seeking gargantuan size in order to strangle any one market, but simply to keep up in all of them. The battle to be waged in the marketplace is whether consumers prefer one-stop shopping, or picking and choosing among "best of breed." That is a choice consumers should be allowed to make. To the extent that banks succeed in entering a wide range of markets, financial services will become...
...hard as the one from Asia and still squeeze out a fairly good year. Some reasons for that strength: rising productivity, which is at last increasing workers' real wages without pushing up prices, and government policies that Sinai pronounces "eerily" wise. Most important, of course, is the swing from gargantuan budget deficits in the 1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments and a new surge in housing--both "very unusual" for an expansion going into its eighth year. One reason: builders of factories...
...name adorns the gargantuan Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. Congressional Republicans and all other D.C. travelers can now feel a warm glow as they pass through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Earlier this week, PBS broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour documentary on Reagan. And, to complement your reading of Dinesh D'Souza's recently-published book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Reagan's official biography will be released next fall. Even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal snootiness, recently published an article titled "A Celebration of Reagan...
Harvard is a gargantuan university with little time to dote on any single student. Every student is unique, extraordinary, and set to begin a thrilling and successful career. After college, students may have a chance to enjoy their proverbial 15 minutes of fame, but during their undergraduate years, students are lucky to have 15 seconds...
...Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier than the movies that preceded it. What gargantuan retread can be next--History of the World Part...