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...that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court. At age 61, he has lost almost all of his retirement savings in the banking meltdown. "It's a matter of pride as a man and an Icelander," he says, "and it was yanked out from under from...
...government guarantees should insure that interbank loan rates retreat to the point where money is moving again. With the first capital injections a few days away, loans should begin flowing easily in a matter of weeks, says Scott Talbott, chief lobbyist for Financial Services Roundtable, representing major U.S. banks. "This will open up credit immediately, and the benefit will begin to flow to small businesses shortly thereafter," he says. Every $1 of equity creates $10 in lending power. Half of the $250 billion set aside for capitalization is targeted at smaller banks. Some banks are wary of the strings attached...
...experience a lot of rejection. But Luntz said that when people turn me down, I should chase them and do a hard sell: "You say, 'Give me 15 seconds. From one human being to another, 15 seconds. I'm here because you're important. I'm here because you matter. They sent me here because you and the people who don't want to answer this question matter more to my magazine than any other Americans. Please teach me. Educate me.'" I bet Luntz doesn't go home alone very often...
Coleman: I'd also probably add an interactive element, in the sense that it's a guiding way of how a President--or for that matter, anyone--interacts with people, information and events ... The President's temperament really defines the kinds of information that's going to come to him, the kinds of advice he's going to get, how people are reacting in the room...
Gage: Well, maybe the question is ... To what degree does it matter? So we think of someone like L.B.J., who everybody knows had this very ... volatile temperament. He liked to kind of intimidate his staffers, bring them close, and you had this whole approach. And the question is, So to what degree did that matter? To what degree did that change political outcomes...