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...automatically lead to weaker currencies. In the early 1980s, the dollar strengthened even as the Reagan Administration embarked on a spending spree, because higher interest rates attracted foreign money, pushing the dollar up. The budget deficit "is not at the center of thinking about the dollar," says Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School...
...Ironically, if Patrick Tumulty had decided to retaliate against his insurance company's executives with physical violence, he would now be in our penal system - with full health-care benefits. Richard Clark III, Adell...
...threatened to host a competing event. For many here, the prospect of hosting the Olympics is a point of significant pride, evidence that America's third-largest city has shed its image as a blue-collar also-ran to the more urbane coastal centers. And the city's mayor, Richard M. Daley, clearly views winning the Games as a capstone of his nearly two-decade rule. "The Olympics is the No. 1 showcase on the world circuit of mega events," says John R. Gold, professor of social sciences and law at Britain's Oxford Brookes University, and co-author...
...order to sell the loans banks will have to recognize losses that could run as high as $200 billion for the sector in general. "The gap between bank marks on these distressed [loans] and their economic value appears to be too wide to be bridged," says Morgan Stanley analyst Richard Berner of the government program...
When staff worker Richard E. Kaufman learned in February that he would be eligible for the early retirement incentive package, he knew that it would be too early for him to leave—especially for the financial instability that awaited him outside of Harvard.But with the 45-day period for accepting or rejecting the package drawing to a close on Monday, many staff workers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences said in interviews with The Crimson that they have been buckling under the mounting pressure of possible layoffs.“You really don?...