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...first television interview since his appointment to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. The last time a Fed chair gave a television interview was in 1987 when Alan Greenspan appeared on Meet the Press - an interview that was followed the next week by the largest single-day drop in stock market history. So why Bernanke's change of heart? He responded to that question quite plainly: "It's an extraordinary time. This is a chance for me, I think, to talk to America directly." Speaking with Pelley from the Federal Reserve and his hometown of Dillon, South Carolina, Bernanke said that...
...this point, the troubles in the sub-prime sector seem unlikely to seriously spill over to the broader economy or the financial system." - in a speech on June 5, 2007 just months before the economy and stock market began to tumble as a result of the sub-prime mortgage crisis (New York Times, August...
...debt than any other entity either private or sovereign. Whether the communist government is really worried about the value of the U.S. paper it holds or is just making a public insult about the flaws in American capitalism may never be known. What is known is that the financial markets have enough concern about Treasuries now to support a market for insuring U.S. debt in the event that the government cannot meet its obligations in the future. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...lose.” Blackwell targeted Republicans who had “campaigned like Ronald Reagan and governed like Jimmy Carter,” as the primary reason for the loss of confidence in the political right. He encouraged a return to an ideology of faith, free-market Capitalism, and individual liberty. Blackwell framed his speech in the context of a growing threat to the American way of life. He called the Democratic Party’s current initiatives an “attempt to pull off the most significant realignment of political power in our 232 year history...
...number of on-campus recruiters at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences fell by nearly 20 percent this spring, leading to an ever-more competitive job market and the diversification of students’ career choices outside of the finance and consulting sectors. According to Robin E. Mount, interim director of the Office of Career Services, recruiting at Harvard College fell 10 percent in the fall of 2008 and 19 percent this spring. Six thousand eRecruiting interviews were held on campus this year, she said. “The economy’s sinking, and we weren?...