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...from his job as CEO of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune - he blew them to smithereens. In a goodbye letter to colleagues he torched his former bosses at the New York Times for ending the IHT as an "independent newspaper, with its own voice and its own international outlook." Goldmark admitted he was breaking the corporate code, under which outgoing CEOs shut up and take the money. "Believe me, I will pay dearly for this, both financially and in other coin," he wrote. But he could not abide the Times decision to manage the paper from the U.S., derisively...
...outlook for fixing the problem in the short term is not good, Casey says...
...crucial factor: "North Dakotans are just as happy as Floridians." Nor is money: "If you look at lottery winners, they get happy for a few months. But a year later, they're back where they were." Even a catastrophe--cancer, say--does little to alter one's overall outlook. "On average," Seligman observes, "people with one life-threatening disease are not more unhappy than the rest of the population. Of course, a cascade of bad things happening can make a difference. But if you have one really bad thing, generally you're not more unhappy...
...resilience not unique to France, though. Says Fitoussi: "What we're seeing in the O.E.C.D. economies is the stagnation and decline of investment. The only thing that's prevented U.S. and European economies from nose-diving has been the strength of consumer spending." In France, the consumer outlook has held steady. But spending in November declined 1.7% from the previous month, so analysts are anxiously awaiting December results. German consumers have already surrendered. According to retail giant Metro, 2002 was the worst year for German stores since World War II. The consumer sentiment index has dropped to the same level...
Clay naturally had a sunnier outlook on the turn of events...