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...here's the thing: you, watching the show, have the tools to come to that conclusion. You've held a job. You know how companies work. And one thing reality TV has trained people to do is to be savvy about its editing. That's how people watch reality TV: you can doubt it, interrogate it, talk back to it, believe...
Money is fleet and nimble. The very thing that makes it unsatisfying to give makes it powerful to deploy. It can turn into anything--a water bottle, a prefab house, a tetanus shot, a biscuit. It lets relief agencies buy locally whenever possible, supporting local markets for products that are culturally and environmentally right. In the past decade, accountability has become a watchword of relief agencies around the world, with new guidelines to help donors know that their aid won't be wasted. Give money, Presidents Bush and Clinton implore, and by implication, leave the rest to professionals...
...could go back and tell yourself to not do one thing during the financial crisis, what would that be, and why? -Kathy Ackerman, Minneapolis I've obviously thought about this a lot, and I believe that the major decisions we made were the right ones. But I've got a list of things that I would like to have done better. For instance, when we sent the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] proposal to Congress, it was a three-page outline. It was not intended to be a complete request. It was intended to be a starting point for negotiation...
...think there is such a thing as a rational market? -Femi Awolusi, Denver I believe in markets, but I don't believe that you can have unregulated, unfettered markets. Since the beginning of time, they have been prone to excesses. The key thing is to make sure we have a regulatory system that can evolve with the markets...
Chevalier was right about one thing, however. The cookies did keep me going. I felt no loss of energy or strength and no unbearable hunger pangs...