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...billion implies that they will need to shrink their balance sheets by 10 times that figure - almost a trillion dollars - to maintain a constant ratio between their assets and capital. That suggests a drastic reduction of credit, since a bank's assets are its loans. Fewer loans mean tighter business conditions on Main Street. Your local car dealer won't be able to get the credit he needs to maintain his inventory of automobiles. To survive, he'll have to lay off some of his employees. Expect higher unemployment nationwide...
...that Fitzy and the Admissions Office are hinting at nixing the SAT, here are 15 equally relevant numbers Harvard should evaluate instead. I mean, we need some standards. 1) Average number of caffeinated drinks consumed in one day 2) Number of objectionable pictures you have un-tagged on Facebook 3) Number of times you said you hated reality TV but watched it anyway 4) Number of Facebook friends 5) Number of Pokemon cards collected in your childhood 6) Your BMI (the lower the better) 7) Your fastest mile time 8) Number of licks it takes...
...yeah, The Kong. “American” Chinese is different than “Chinese” Chinese food. I mean, there’s talk about dog being on the menu. I never saw any of that, but there’s a lot of options, for sure...
...prospective members to declare their interest, FM did some sleuthing to find out some more information. According to “Mo,” the person whose phone number is listed on the flyer, the “literary society” part doesn’t mean anything—Alpha Delta Phi is just a regular fraternity. The nearby Brandeis chapter is responsible for the colonization effort. Alpha Delt, as it likes to call itself, already has a handful of members at Harvard among the junior and senior class, and now it’s looking...
...weekly news cycles, McCain has failed to give voters a broad, forward-looking explanation for why they should support him. McCain's national-security experience and reputation as a reformer add substance to his theme of "putting country first," but they don't explain what a McCain presidency would mean, or how it would differ from the past eight years. "At no point have they told the American people where John wants to lead them," says a third Republican strategist. "Had they spent more time laying the predicate, they'd have something to fall back...