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...crawl out of bed about 6 and have some tea," he says, "and immediately I meet my managers"--that is, the managers of his small farm in rural Pakistan. "Then they go off and do their thing, and I write until 2." The rest of the afternoon he spends either out on the land or going through the finances. "I tend to soft-play the accounts and spend more time walking around. It should be the exact opposite, but it's so much fun walking around...
...that--by painting the word stimulus down the side--it will lift off like an economic rocket. There is no Plan B. The hero of recessions past--the American shopper--has left the mall. For the first time in its history, the National Retail Federation predicts consumers will actually spend less over the coming year. Super Spender can't save the day when stuck in the unemployment line...
...Sadness is terrible because, obviously, it hurts. But as a team of researchers pointed out last year in a study in the journal Psychological Science, sadness can stimulate something this economy badly needs: consumer spending. According to the Department of Commerce, just when the economy was tanking during the third quarter of last year, the personal-savings rate jumped to its highest level in nearly four years. In the long term, a higher savings rate will help prevent future credit meltdowns, but most economists agree that in the short term, we need to stop stuffing paychecks into mattresses. Being...
While UPMIFA would not allow affected institutions to spend freely from underwater funds, it would offer some breathing room—giving a place like Harvard “more flexibility to spend money for its core purposes,” according to Michael R. Kerr, legislative director for the Uniform Law Commission, which drafted UPMIFA...
According to Crump, who was commissioned by the Masters to spend last summer making artwork for Winthrop, Rosen and Sassanfar have made an effort to place art throughout the House, especially when it is Winthrop-centric...