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...Gist: For months, financial forecasters have been doing everything short of suggesting we don gas masks and stockpile canned goods. But according to the sixth installment in the Boston Consulting Group's "Collateral Damage" series, the drumbeat of grim prognoses is failing to "instill a sense of urgency" into many corporations. In their survey of 439 companies with sales above $1 billion (including 86 with sales above $20 billion), the authors found that "too many companies are reacting late and with insufficient purpose." Many also show signs of inflated expectations: while 65% of companies said their industry's fortunes would...
EXTREMELY HIGH. The pool of non-Harvard females looking for Mr. Right in the form of a handsome, intelligent Harvard boy is extremely large, especially given the number of colleges in the Boston area. Cosmopolitan BU girls are right across the river, driven Babson females are a short shuttle ride away, and then there’s always Wellesley girls…enough said...
...eliminating a tax on something we wish to encourage, job creation, thereby giving the fruits of their labor to lower- and middle-class workers, while taxing pollution, which we want to discourage. (It should be noted that such a proposal has zero prospects for being considered in the short term, as it completely upends the fundamental premises of the current entitlement system, but perhaps as we get further down the line with entitlement spending and more comfortable with the idea of a means-tested system, it might get a more serious look...
...spending as opposed to tax cuts in stimulating the economy (Krugman would presumably find a reason not to like this idea), who can deny that there would be a positive jolt to consumer spending from something as dramatic as a complete suspension of payroll taxes, even for a relatively short period of time? The February stimulus bill contains something along these lines, the Making Work Pay tax credit, which will mail out a refundable tax credit of up to $400 in both 2009 and 2010. But an actual hiatus on payroll taxes would mean bigger paychecks in the much shorter...
...season ended today, Brown would rank first in the single-season record books in opponent batting average (.173), walks allowed/7 innings pitched (0.26), and strikeouts/7 innings pitched, as well as second in ERA. In short, she’s well on her way to arguably the greatest season ever produced by a Crimson pitcher...