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While Feldstein has infuriated Regan, he has aroused equally intense ire at the White House. Not since Budget Director David Stockman was taken to the woodshed for revealing doubts about Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly in 1981 has the Administration been so embarrassed, and harassed, by one of its economic gurus. The President's aides accuse the economist of being disloyal and giving ammunition to the opposition during an election campaign. Says one staffer: "He's made the CEA a four-letter word around here." On several occasions, the White House has censored advance texts of Feldstein...
Israelis are annoyed that bank officials continued to tout their stocks last year even as prices fell. Rumors that some bank executives were simultaneously selling their own shares have increased the public's ire. Said one bitter investor, whose banker had persuaded him to keep his stock: "I was patriotic and rescinded my sell order. I lost about 70% of my pension money as a result." The crisis has sparked numerous lawsuits and demands for investigations. "The complicity and duplicity of the banks and the government are something that deserves being looked into," says Joseph Morgenstern, a Tel Aviv...
...would be if Reagan had buried partisanship back in the summer of 1981 and taken Speaker Tip O'Neill's budget compromise, which would have held down the deficits that now threaten to bury us. How much better off we would be if Reagan had muted his ire at the Soviet Union and heeded the public's nuclear-arms concerns...
...week of rosy economic news, Feldstein 's warnings rouse ire...
...Sinn Fein, appears as an occasional guest at the Quinton house, which the Black and Tans burn in 1918 after massacring Willie's father and sisters. The boy grows up to nurse an alcoholic mother, love an English cousin, avenge his father's murder and flee Ire-and. Characteristically, Trevor's women remain home to bear fevered witness and carry the seeds of further disaster...