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...March 23, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled the Obama Administration's toxic-bank-assets plan. The stock markets cheered the news, sending the Dow up 497 points...
Fear of what? Take your pick. Fear that the U.S. is on a long march to fascism. (As evidence, Beck cited - on April Fools' Day but apparently seriously - the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" - Big Government, Big Business, Big Media - are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America - Palinville - have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just...
What unites Beck's disparate themes is a sense of siege. On March 13, he served up a kind of fear combo platter - war, chaos, totalitarianism, financial ruin - with the 9/12 Project, a tearful call to viewers to rediscover the common purpose they felt after 9/11. In 2001, that common purpose involved cable-news talkers' dialing down the us-vs.-them shtick for a day or two; now Beck urged viewers to reject the notion that "they" have all the power. "They don't surround us," he declared. "We surround them...
...March 31, there were 16 Cambridge businesses on the list, including Au Bon Pain, Finale Desserterie, and Armando’s Pizza...
...very broad perspective leading a large financial institution through these times,” said second-year MBA student Filipp M. Brunshteyn. During the economic crisis, JPMorgan has at times been at the center of the media spotlight, purchasing Bear Sterns’ assets last March after the investment bank’s collapse. JPMorgan also accepted $25 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program last October. Second-year MBA student Mahshid Pirzadeh said students were looking forward to hearing what Wall Street firms are doing right. “It will be interesting to gain his perspective on future...