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...Leverage was the mother's milk of Wall Street - and of Main Street - for the past 20 years. Leverage meant debt, specifically the number of dollars you could borrow for every dollar of wealth you had. It meant borrowing other people's money to invest in something you wanted to invest in, or to buy something you wanted to buy. On Wall Street, debt funded investments in pretty much everything a financial firm could bet on, including the toxic mortgage-backed securities that led the way into this crisis. On Main Street, it meant borrowing to buy a house...
PETA recently tried to advocate for the use of human breast milk rather than cow's milk in Ben & Jerry's ice cream. That doesn't seem very feasible. Erika Kohl, WESTFORD, MASS...
...very feasible at all, but it was great fun to suggest it to Ben & Jerry's, who also knew it was a joke. What was serious was that television stations listened to our reasons why making anything out of cow's milk is unkind. Calves are taken away from their mothers and used for veal. We drink the milk meant for those little calves...
...George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominees. But it was the former Secretary of State and four-star general's testimony on Obama's readiness to be Commander in Chief that gave this endorsement its unusual megawattage and influence. If, as the saying goes, money is the mother's milk of American politics, Obama should open a national chain of dairies. The announcement that he had raised a record-smashing $150 million in September made it clear that not only will he greatly outspend the Republicans in all battleground states, but he'll also have enough left over to make...
...could fulfill their life's purpose, which was to stand in a pasture and chew. By yanking them from their habitat, breeding them to physiological extremes, and pushing them through an industrial process as if they were identical to Model Ts...we came to think of them merely as milk wells to be tapped and burgers to be neatly wrapped in polyurethane...