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...There's more fragility in the system than is generally recognized," warned Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management. "We are in a very precarious position because investors' confidence is disconnected from any hard-hitting analysis of what is underlying the economy. Even a small increase in interest rates could puncture the balloon...
...rambunctious," and he wanted nothing less than to spend his period of confinement with me. Naively, I persisted. By the end of the day, however, the only thing I had to show for my noble efforts to befriend this angry five-year old was that he hated "stupid kinder-garten girls...
Clinton's miscalculation of the gains to be had from taxing foreign firms masks a larger problem: a shortsighted view of outside investment in the U.S. "We're in a real struggle for foreign capital, and we're going to need huge amounts of it," says Jeffrey Garten, a professor at Columbia University's business school. "If the U.S. tries the gunboat approach, we're going to put the country at a huge disadvantage...
...Soaking the foreigners may have sounded to Clinton and his advisers like a politically painless program, but it could cost the + U.S. a lot more in lost capital investment than it would gain in taxes. "Clinton is just going to have to rethink his policies on international taxation," says Garten. If Clinton does so, he will probably have to find the money elsewhere -- or come to realize that his spending plan is too ambitious...
...GOOD that the process is no walk in the park. We already get enough handholding and kinder garten chaperoning from Mother Harvard. It's about time students are awarded the independence befitting adults. We already have our toilets cleaned for us, our meals cooked for us, our daily Crimsons delivered to our doorsteps...