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This is the point where Menino’s pulse begins to quicken, with the prospect for a new economic engine in his city...
Remarks like that only quicken the already thumping pulse of congressional Republicans, who must face the voters next year, not in 2004. That's why last week House Republican leaders were pushing hard for an immediate second round of tax cuts--the cut in capital-gains rates--to stimulate the economy. The President and his staff argue that his tax cut--plus passage of his energy plan and expanded "fast-track" authority to negotiate international trade agreements--will solve the problem. They're wary of a capital-gains rate cut, which liberal Democrats would ridicule...
...children had already attended the required "We Spend Too Darn Much Money Around Here" lecture series, so I decided this time to move from the philosophical to the practical. Using my computer and a program called Quicken, I printed out a blow-by-blow accounting of every nickel made and spent by the Camerons so far this year, sparing no detail...
...cutthroat business of selling dishwashers and refrigerators, which Welch was unable to do. Still, "having a few consumer brands is worth something," says Noel Tichy, a University of Michigan management professor who ran GE's famed Crotonville executive-training center in the mid-1980s. Immelt wants to quicken the pace of innovation at GE, and a year-old R.-and-D. center in India--along with China, the key global market he'll have to tap for growth--should help. He also plans to push the company's continuing move into the digital age, expanding the use of online auctions...
...typically makes 100 acquisitions a year--fuel for much of its annual growth over the past 15 years. That pace may have to quicken. Earlier this summer, GE Capital paid $5.3 billion for Heller Financial, which should give it more access to financing small and medium-size businesses. Capital's only possible "missing link," Merrill Lynch analyst Jeanne Gallagher Terrile points out, is a thriving business managing money for aging baby boomers...