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...Great Depression started out with a stock market bubble that burst in 1929, as the world was going into a nice recession. Then the government started making mistakes. They passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, they raised taxes, they became very protectionist, and the next thing you know we had the Great Depression. In Europe they made solvent banks take over insolvent banks with the result that both [kinds of] banks failed. This has all been done before. History is - I don't like saying it, but it's repeating itself. Governments are making the same old mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment Guru Jim Rogers | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...work on the Portfolio launch and jumped ship after the first eight months. But more daring editorial choices, like December's cover subject of Dov Charney, the controversial CEO of American Apparel, came across as ill-timed and wrong-footed. "[Newhouse's] best editors in chief all have one thing in common," wrote former staffer Paul Smalera, on the Portfolio-obsessed website Gawker.com, "which is they know how to channel and predict the predilections of their readers and turn at least a couple issues a year into can't-miss propositions. Lipman did not have this particular talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portfolio's Flameout, or How to Burn Money Fast | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...added. To top it off, Gillepsie does it all with a massive beard. “I think it makes him look like a 40-year-old man,” Saretsky said. “He is certainly a free spirit. It’s his thing and I’m all about the individual.”“I haven’t performed any sort of experiment, but I guess I could shave half of my face and go half as much faster,” Gillepsie joked. “I like having...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Junior Sets Standard at Penn Relays | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

That was the secretary next door. She’s retiring early and thought she could play a prank on me. Can someone please tell me how to delete this thing...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Twitter for Administrators? | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...start to feel sick, make the trek over to UHS where they will hopefully treat you with something stronger than ibuprofen. And as we learned before with Babson norovirus outbreak, washing your hands is the best way to avoid getting sick. "The most important thing for staying healthy is good hygiene," Rosenthal says. "When you cough, you should cough into your elbow, and not into the phone or onto your friends...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons | Title: Swine Flu Comin' At-Choo | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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