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...shortage," says Anil Kashyap, professor of economics and finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. To Kashyap and a number of economists, this has been the problem from the beginning, and any proposed solution that doesn't address the basic issue of recapitalizing banks won't succeed in the long run. Treasury has now come to the same conclusion: the best way to shore up both the banks' balance sheets and their confidence in lending (to each other, to businesses, to us) is to become an investor in them...
Sarah Palin’s brief replies were similarly revealing. Her impressive verbal architecture ensured the maximum number of catchy phrases per minute; when there’s so much to say, who has time to conjugate verbs? And she did succeed in conveying her dedication (to buzzwords, if nothing else). When the moderator asked what each candidate considered to be his or her Achilles’ heel, Palin assured the audience of her “experience as an executive” and “connection to the heartland of America,” before conceding that...
...ridiculous stretching the story out over dozens of episodes? It will depend on how well it rethinks the closed-ended British story line. In the end, successful foreign-transplant shows are not really "imported"; they immigrate. Eventually, they need to learn a new dialect and new mores. If they succeed - like Archie Bunker and all TV's other Ellis Island inductees - they'll have to find a way to adapt, take root and thrive in their new home country...
Roche, however, retains one key advantage: it has already seen its own line of attack succeed. The proof? Roche's first targeted breast-cancer drug, Herceptin. Developed by Genentech, Herceptin was marketed specifically to destroy cancers containing the her-2/neu protein, which doctors can detect using a 21-gene screen diagnostic. Herceptin has helped thousands of women combat breast cancer. But there's no doubt it has also helped Roche's bottom line: at $40,000 a year per patient, Herceptin grew globally in sales nearly 25%, to $4.1 billion, last year. "You need self-confidence to take risks...
...while the bailout bill was voted down in the House on Monday, many of the University’s economists predict it will eventually succeed in some form, whether or not they think it’s a good thing...