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...Floyd fan and determined to get close enough to the Wall to hear the concert. He wound his way through backstreets to a building near the Wall and climbed onto the roof from a window in the building's attic. Yet despite his efforts, he could hardly hear a thing. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Michael Jackson...
...thing the exchange is not doing is telling the public just who it is that uses the exchange's special access to conduct high-frequency trades. The NYSE plans to keep secret the small group of investment firms that collectively make what could be billions of dollars a year off their special access...
...Lauvergeon, though, has kept her top spot, with recently appointed supervisor Jean-Cyril Spinetta, chairman of Air France-KLM, backing most of her positions - even if plans for a public offering of shares in Areva, something for which Lauvergeon has long lobbied, have now been dropped. "About the only thing she hasn't gotten her way on is hearing [President] Nicolas Sarkozy say 'O.K., let's float this company,' " Elias says. "Apart from that, though, we're seeing further confirmation that she's one of the best managers in the industrial world...
...implosion of Wall Street is already having this salutary effect, prompting some bankers to start up new financial firms and others to go to work for smaller, no-name companies. Which should, among other things, help reduce the dangerous overconcentration of capital and risk that made the present crisis so dangerous and devastating. "If the risk-taking spreads out to these smaller institutions, it is no longer a systemic threat," according to Matthew Richardson, a finance professor at New York University. "And innovation is spreading out too. This is a good thing...
What's one thing you wish more people knew about young conservatives? I just wish they knew we existed - there are a lot of us out there, and all we want are individual liberties and individual responsibility. I don't want to be told what I should be eating. I don't want to be told how to raise my kid. I don't want to be told that I should be learning Spanish, as Barack Obama told us on the campaign trail. I don't want to be told how to run my own life...