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...Swedish experts caution that the Swedish financial system is relatively small compared to the U.S. In 1992 most leading government officials knew the bank chiefs on a first name basis. Still, the Swedish experience could hold other lessons, says Robert Bergquist, chief analyst at SEB, one of Sweden's largest banks. "The Swedish success depended on four factors," he explains. Stockholm acted quickly, in open acknowledgement of the problems, and under a broad political agreement across the party spectrum. "Running parallel with these three factors," he says, "a new economic policy - new goals for inflation and the budget - was developed...
...project that was complementary to both fields. They let me do a documentary film based on farm work in South Africa and my written thesis for anthropology was about black empowerment in South Africa.7. FM: Did you always know you’d be an artist? CD: I always knew I would do something creative. I would be no good at any of the other things. I’m just hopeless at science—it was just a question of how I would cobble the various disciplines together. 8. FM: “Aftertaste,” your...
...remember how it used to be, in those golden, Unabomber days. If your name was on a building, or if you were poor but knew an oarsman from a coxswain, you were in—as long as you were a white male without a “problem name.” Sure, we’ve been knocking down barriers like it’s going out of style ever since, but this is a slippery SAT II slope you’re skipping down. Know where it ends? Sex weeks, Richard Alpert, and lecturers who grade with...
...Bresnahan said there was “a lot of optimism.” “A lot of employees thought that the hedge funds shorting Lehman were spreading negative sentiment about us,” he said. “That was particularly frustrating because our group knew we were doing well even though there was pessimism outside of Lehman.” Mouli noted that during his internship, many of his colleagues had been positive about Lehman’s future. “The group I worked in was consistently one of the top groups...
...Porter says that from an early age, he knew that he wanted to be an academic, surrounded by books, just as he had been as a child...