Word: truthful
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...years into the Great Recession, it's time to face the truth: optimism feels good, really good, but it turns out to be the methamphetamine of run-amok American capitalism. Meth induces a "Superman syndrome." Optimism fed into what Steve Eisman, a banking analyst who foresaw the crash, calls "hedge-fund disease," characterized by "megalomania, plus narcissism, plus solipsism" and the belief that "to think something is to make it happen." The meth-head loses his teeth and his mind; the madcap optimists of Wall Street lost something like $10 trillion worth of pension funds, life savings and retirement accounts...
...privately if fighting climate change is less a conviction for Arias than a vehicle back to the international accolades he enjoyed a quarter century ago. They point out that his conservation kick was greatly influenced by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth., and wonder if Arias was motivated more by the message of the film, or the worldwide praise Gore received as a result of championing the cause...
...Nobel award has been universally acknowledged, not least by Obama himself, as premature. Some have argued - and the Committee's own statement suggested as much - that its purpose is to enhance the President's authority to press forward on his peace quest in the Middle East and beyond. In truth, however, the Nobel confers no recognized authority on the laureate, only attention - one gift President Obama most certainly does not need. But even if the award does nothing for Obama's ability to achieve his goals, some observers hope it will reinforce the President's will to press for peace...
...ugly truth, though, is that the 401(k) is a lousy idea, a financial flop, a rotten repository for our retirement reserves. In the past two years, that has become all too clear. From the end of 2007 to the end of March 2009, the average 401(k) balance fell 31%, according to Fidelity. The accounts have rebounded, along with the rest of the market, but that's little help for those who retired - or were forced to - during the recession. In a system in which one year's gains build on the next, the disaster of 2008 will dent...
What was the biggest surprise you uncovered? One discovery made a real impression on me. The highest calling of any intelligence agency is to tell truth to power. The first example of this I came across is during the 1938 Munich crisis, one of the most ignoble moments in British foreign policy. MI5 at that point actually understands [Adolf] Hitler far better than the British government and then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in particular. He pays no attention to what they tell him during the negotiations that lead to the Munich agreements. So Vernon Kell [the head...