Word: niall
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...Nowhere does Niall Ferguson inform readers that under the Clinton Administration, the Internal Revenue Service began giving out Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to assist illegal aliens in paying taxes, which also enabled them to take out home loans. Previously, a valid U.S. Social Security number was required to purchase a home, thereby excluding illegal immigrants from qualifying for such loans. Every media feature on the bursting of the housing bubble describes decimated neighborhoods in Florida, Arizona and California - all areas with large populations of illegal aliens - but no one tells us about the government's change in regulations that...
...professor Niall Ferguson, who was one of the two keynote speakers of the Global Business Summit, told the crowd of nearly 2,000 that the Business School has led the way in arming students with the outlook to be leaders...
...wasn’t worried about a dropoff in attendance. “We’ve seen the normal level of dropoff that see for an event of this size, but nothing more than that,” Goff said. “We will have folks like Niall Ferguson and Larry Summers who are in a unique position to speak about the crisis.” Business School professor F. Warren McFarlan ’59, who is in charge of organizing the summit, noted the parallel between the current financial situation and that of when the Business...
...that almost every American--whether it's through his pension or her business or his 401(k)--is deeply affected by failures in the banking system. Time has been telling this story for the past several weeks, and in this issue, the cover story by the acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson puts the current crisis in historical, financial and global perspective. As Ferguson shows, there are similarities to the Depression of the 1930s, but history can also be a guide to avoiding another...
...Even such an unquestionably eminent Harvard historian and colleague of Professor Darnton as Niall Ferguson, has been accused of serving as an apologist for Western hegemony and the British Empire as well as American involvement in Iraq...