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Ever since the Reagan Administration marked Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi as a foremost enemy, the U.S. pur chase of Libyan oil has seemed strangely inconsistent. Oil is virtually Libya's only source of wealth, and the radical strong man has been using profits to train terror ists. One consideration was that some 2,500 Americans in Libya could have been seized by Gaddafi, creating an Iran-style hostage crisis...
...research assistant for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After taking his M. A. he returned to the New York Fed as a money market researcher, and soon developed a reputation as a brilliant thinker and long-term planner. In 1957 Volcker came to the attention of Chase Manhattan Bank's chief economist, John Wilson, who hired him away from the Fed, thereby starting the self-assured young banker on a 25-year shuttlecock career back and forth between Government service and the Chase...
...because he is concerned with the complacency of Harvard students. They're applying to Chase Manhattan and Morgan Stanley instead of marching around Harvard Yard is protest of South African apartheid. Some of these wayward souls have probably taken job offers, even though. "There are not that many people who--if they thought they had the choice--would reality want to work for Chase Manhattan or Morgan Stanley...
...International Monetary Fund are also firmly against declaring Poland in default, arguing that it would hurt the Western banking system more than the East-bloc economy. Because West Germany, France and England hold much of the Polish debt, they would quickly be forced to declare default and chase after Warsaw's assets if the U.S. took such action. The West would have severe trouble if forced to absorb not only Poland's debt but also the $52 billion owed by Hungary, Rumania and other Eastern European countries that may have to default if Poland does. Says Gordon Richardson...
Express would work. He returned to Memphis with $72 million in venture capital from such organizations as Chase Manhattan, Citibank and New Court Securities...