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...normally stimulates the economy via the financial system, is having trouble doing so because the financial system is broken. And the usual concern that government will crowd out private borrowers isn't an issue. "The government has a window in which it can borrow very aggressively," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com "because no one else is borrowing...
...very final minutes of the meeting yesterday, Harvard’s Chief Planner for Allston Kathy A. Spiegelman said that she thought “the letter spoke for itself...
...confident in its game strategy and complacent with its overall performance. But you’d be wrong: the Crimson is hungrier than ever and hopes that its level of play can be pushed to new heights to secure the league crown for the third consecutive year.One of the chief goals for Harvard this season will be improving its offensive level of play, and that starts down low with its corps of forwards. Three-year starter Katie Rollins and Emma Moretzsohn—Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s first forward off the bench— will need...
...ironies of politics and history that when the candidate of change was pondering what he would do if he actually got elected President, he turned to the man who eight years before handed over the White House keys to George W. Bush. Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta had met Barack Obama only a few times before the Democratic nominee summoned him to Chicago in August to ask him to begin planning a transition. Podesta supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and had little in common with Obama beyond the fact that they are both skinny...
...only did Obama name a White House chief of staff two days after the election, but he also began to fill 120,000 sq. ft. (11,000 sq m) of office space in downtown Washington with a transition operation that is ultimately expected to have a staff of 450 and a budget of $12 million, more than half of which must be raised from private funds. Obama's goal, says his old friend Valerie Jarrett, another co-chair of the transition operation, "is to be able to be organized, efficient, disciplined and transparent to the American people." More disciplined than...