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...criticize the details of the U.S. response to the collapse of credit markets, but in comparison to Tokyo, Washington has acted at warp speed. As Japan watcher Richard Katz points out in the latest Foreign Affairs, it took the Bank of Japan nine years to bring the interest rate that banks pay on overnight money to 0%; the U.S. Fed managed that in 16 months following the beginning of the credit crisis in the summer of 2007. Japan - in desperate denial about the plight of proud companies - long delayed using public money to recapitalize banks. The U.S. starting doing...
...Less a maker of news than a conduit for popular sentiment about the news, Harvey told King, "I don't think of myself as a profound journalist. I think of myself as a professional parade watcher who can't wait to get out of bed every morning and rush down to the Teletypes and pan for gold...
...problem that our regulatory agencies can't find tough prosecutors without ties to the banking industry," said John Coffee, an SEC watcher and a securities-industry law professor at Columbia University. "It's unsettling that the government's revolving door always leads back to banks." In any case, Coffee believes, Schapiro will "need more than one person to change things...
...mood songwriter. I don't have to be happy to write a happy song. I write what I'm inspired to write at that time. I'm a life observer and I'm a people watcher, and so I just see things that happen and I write about them...
...cinema was sort of a second life. It was another way to be in contact with my life as an adult, as a woman, more than through my family or through my school. And, somehow, feeling unfit, I had the impression that I could not be only a film-watcher.”Much of Denis’ work is informed by the time she spent in Africa. Her first feature film, “Chocolat” (not to be confused with the more recent “Chocolat” starring Juliette Binoche), is set in post-colonial...