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...name is not Gordon.' MICHAEL DOUGLAS, actor, referring to Gordon Gekko, his character in 1987's Wall Street, when asked about the financial crisis and whether "greed ... is good...
...then into its 60th and 61st quarter and beyond ... Inflation has fallen from 3% to 2.8%, and will fall further this year to 2% ... Looking ahead to 2008 and 2009, inflation will also be on target. And we will never return to the old boom and bust." Thus Gordon Brown, as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Budget statement only last year. No Chancellor since the war has quite so disastrously misread the economic situation, or so fundamentally misunderstood the inescapable nature of market economies - namely, that the greater the binge, the greater the hangover. Today, Britain...
...Harvard could certainly benefit from a solid defensive effort, as Brown brings a forceful attack to the pool. While Connolly has shined in goal, logging ten saves in the last contest against the Bears, he cannot stifle the opposition himself. The potent Brown offense relies heavily on sophomore Gordon Hood, who haunted the Crimson with a hat trick ten days ago. The visitors have averaged a healthy 10.5 goals per game this season and bring an impressive a three-game winning streak to Cambridge.“They have a great two-meter offensive player,” explained senior...
...annual Office of Career Services Career Forum included the usual big names: the CIA, Abercrombie & Fitch, NASA, and... Lehman Brothers?... Oh, wait. While many students and recruiters were out in full force at Gordon Track last Friday, lots of the big finance companies failed to make an appearance at the Office of Career Services Career Forum. But that’s not to say that the rockin’ fair was full of doom and gloom. One company that seemed determined to keep the good times coming, despite the plunging economy, was Facebook. “Everyone is very smart...
...Washington and Wall Street stole the headlines from the Conservatives' annual conference, held this year in Birmingham, Britain's unlovely second city. The Labour party, divided and unpopular, had held their own yearly get-together the week before. It managed a show of unity behind beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown, securing a boost in the polls that halved the Tories' lead from 20 points to 10. Cameron and his colleagues planned to use their conference to win back the initiative and the limelight. That chance was torpedoed when the House of Representatives rejected the bailout package on Sept...