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...Despite all the nervousness, the dollar is not necessarily destined to decline. Large budget deficits don't automatically lead to weaker currencies. In the early 1980s, the dollar strengthened even as the Reagan Administration embarked on a spending spree, because higher interest rates attracted foreign money, pushing the dollar up. The budget deficit "is not at the center of thinking about the dollar," says Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School...
...budget, stimulus package, and bank bailout assumptions for employment and revenue are no longer right, the government's pot for solving the nation's economic problems is already light. The Administration's forecast is that unemployment will average 8.1% this year and 7.9% next year. The CBO estimates are a bit higher. Based on where unemployment stands now and where it will likely be at mid-year, none of those numbers is even remotely realistic. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...Budget estimates are wrong, so are the "stress test" assumptions for the government's new program to determine which banks are in reasonable shape to make it through the recession and which are not. The test is based on unemployment reaching as high as 10%. If the number is likely to go well beyond that, the premise for evaluating the strength of key pillars of the financial system is deeply flawed before the evaluation process has been finished. The Administration wants to set measurements for whether large American private banks need to raise money. If 10% unemployment is a critical...
...undergraduates, OCS has adapted remarkably well to a shifting demand. OCS has faced the same tightening of the belt that has affected the rest of the University. In an effort to cut operation costs, OCS is considering eliminating one-on-one counseling in July. But even amidst sweeping budget cuts across the University, OCS has adapted to the current situation with flexibility, energy, and responsiveness to the needs and desires of undergraduates. The programs and panels offered by OCS this spring have catered both to students who have been rejected from banks and consulting firms who have slashed hiring...
...here's why Defense Secretary Robert Gates kept discussions on the Pentagon's 2010 budget so secret that he swore the military's high command to silence ahead of the budget's unveiling. Aiming to shift military spending priorities from billion-dollar Cold War-era weapons to the simpler armored vehicles and spy drones needed for the "wars we are in today and scenarios for the years ahead," Gates on Monday proposed, among other things, to end funding of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter. That cut alone will spark fierce resistance on Capitol Hill, but it's only...