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In a keynote speech on the topic ?What Have We Learned Since 1979??, Bernanke reveals his own priorities as he lavishly praises the legacy of both Greenspan and his predecessor, Paul Volcker, in using fiscal policy to combat inflation, which he sees as the greatest threat to economic stability and...
Once Polaroid entered bankruptcy, Moss and her retired co-workers learned a bitter lesson--that they had no say in the security of benefits they had worked all their lives to accumulate. While the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) agreed to make good on most of their basic pensions...
Jo Ransom, 56, learned that the hard way. A disabled former secretary from Bonham, Texas, she took up online poker with glee about a year ago. Lonely at home and hooked on the thrill of competing, she began playing $20 and $30 tables and losing too much. Then an online...
Ah, the high-rolling life of Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw. Presiding over a packed Sanders Theatre of freshmen hanging on his every word, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic advisors strikes fear in the hearts of men. A lone sophomore among the �...
The figures in the two frames face each other. One is a study of sullen little girl rendered in hasty brushstrokes. The other, a delicately sketched Renaissance noblewoman, is a copy of a drawing attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. At first glance, these two works seem to have little in...