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Today, the MTA’s successor, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), raises subway fares from 85 cents to one dollar. Even at a dollar the fare will remain one of the lowest in the nation, and the T’s announcement of its first fare hike in almost a decade met only half-hearted protest from environmental and transportation advocacy groups...
When he isn’t accompanying Japanese businessmen on jaunts through Northeastern lumberyards, acting as their American liaison and interpreter, Egashira takes what money he has made and heads off to the seldom traveled sectors of the globe. He has successfully completed a 100-mile solo hike in the Rocky Mountains, a trip to the Arctic and one to Greenland...
...Suddenly, administrators began to talk seriously about improving financial aid. The first tuition hike in two decades played a major part in the debate...
...anything, it's that Greenspan's aggressive easing will work - eventually. The Fed always wins in the end, and because of that there's cause for the Fed to worry that another 50-point cut Tuesday will be someday determined to have been overkill - just like the 50-point hike that Greenspan laid on us a year ago this month. And with Friday's news so heartening, there's a possibility Greenspan will send a vote of economic confidence with a 25-point, everything's-gonna-be-alright cut. (Even though Wall Street would immediately run screaming from the room...
...what about the hike in IRA and 401k contribution limits...