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While the bailout plan may reassure S & L depositors, the tough capital requirements will spell trouble for many marginal thrifts. James Barth, chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, estimates that 674 thrifts, or almost one-fourth of all federally insured U.S. savings institutions...
Rubbing noses in such gloom is only one of the demands Larkin makes on his readers. He also boasts (and sometimes complains) about his exclusion from * everyday life, his marginal role as a bachelor librarian, living alone and not growing mellow with age. In fact, Larkin makes of his infirmities...
In it's most moderate guise, supply-side theory says that greasing the palms of the rich and swelling the coffers of corporations induces them to invest that money for productive purposes. More radical supply-siders say that cutting marginal tax rates in the top brackets spurs productivity so much...
Since only a few hard-core ideologues still believe that lowering marginal tax rates produces an actual increase in revenues, Lindsey had to content himself by telling the gathered students that lowering the top marginal rates makes the rich pay a larger share of the nation's total tax bill...
Young Bernstein's reaction was to become a patriotic rebel -- class air-raid warden, supersalesman of Defense Bond stamps, proud wearer of an I LIKE IKE button -- and a marginal student who eventually skipped college to become a newspaper copy clerk. He also, quite understandably, became interested in whether his...