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...rain to make movies. We would get nice beautiful, perfectly formed drops coming out of the sky and I'd be like, 'Why aren't we shooting this?' And Dante Spinotti, who's our Academy Award-winning cinematographer, would say, 'Greg, it's not right. The drops are all wrong...
...wasn't during the Depression. Back then, conventional wisdom held that the government should try to run a balanced budget in a crisis, even if that meant cutting welfare spending and raising taxes. A generation of economists inspired by John Maynard Keynes taught us that this is precisely the wrong thing to do. Government deficits in a recession are good, the Keynesians argued, because they stimulate demand. The Bush Administration, which ran substantial deficits in the boom years, looks set to run an even larger deficit...
...from 2005 to 2007, to $106 billion; the country's credit-card industry has been growing at an average annual rate of nearly 30%. "There was an environment that was building up irrational exuberance," says Alam Srinivas, author of The Indian Consumer. "No one thought that anything could go wrong. The party never seemed...
...want to be reminded of who and what we think we were, not who we are. But yearning for our past, real or imagined, will not bring it back. And I fear that after the tribulations of the past eight years, we may not survive waking up on the wrong side of the bed for four more. I can only pray that by November we will stir from our sentimental slumber long enough to elect a President who has the vision and intelligence to lead us in the world in which we actually live. Kevin Thompson, Maplewood...
...Spare a thought for Yuriko Koike; she's in the wrong decade...