Word: rightfulness
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...graph, breaking down the details - including the drinks, the fast food and the mid-afternoon coffee runs - suddenly appears. Mint also sends perky little reminders about when your credit-card bills are due, notes if you got charged a fee for something, or questions transactions that don't look right. It even gives a cheerful nudge every time you go over budget on something. You'll excuse this, but it brings a hint of freshness to the stale morning breath of bookkeeping...
...years before the crisis also played a key role in allowing things to get so bad. From ill-considered deregulation of banking and derivatives to over-the-top encouragement of home ownership, Washington's fingerprints were all over the crisis. Almost nothing has been done so far to right these wrongs, or otherwise rein in the excesses of the financial system. Which brings us to lesson No. 3: It's really hard for a democracy to make big changes in the absence of crisis...
...push through Congress before year-end - creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, giving the Federal Reserve the job of systemic risk regulator, and establishing a "resolution regime" to wind down troubled nonbank financial institutions (like Lehman) and complex bank holding companies in an orderly fashion. Steps in the right direction? Probably. Truly major reforms? Not so much...
...been made into a public television series of 12 episodes on WGBH, there’s no telling how much larger its “enrollment” will be this season. And while the introduction of the new show “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” makes it easier to get a more comfortable seat and a better view of Sandel, it is also an admirable continuation of Harvard’s commitment to its Extension School programs and to sharing its academic resources with the larger community...
Reclaim hot breakfast! Harvard may have taken away your right to a hot meal every morning, but that doesn’t mean you have to go without. Somewhat out of the way from Harvard’s central partying scene, Ihop provides a down-to-earth, value-friendly atmosphere, where no one will judge you for scarfing down that omelet, bacon, and pancakes. And the biggest perk: they take Crimson Cash...