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...Reinvestment Act from more serious critics. The most compelling critique - offered by Clinton Administration budget chief Alice Rivkin and Democratic Senator Ben Nelson as well as principled conservatives like New York Times columnist David Brooks and Reagan Administration economics adviser Martin Feldstein - is that an $800 billion stimulus package ought to be all about stimulus. They're not the Hooverish partisans who are whining that the package has turned into a "spending plan," as if government spending were a preposterous strategy for jump-starting the economy. They're concerned with how the money would be spent. They're O.K. with...
...Dell can't win in the handset business. Period. It ought to try to plug the leaks of the ship it is already...
...signatory David Kaiser ’69 initially misunderstood the terms of the claw-back provision, but when the provision was clarified during an interview with The Crimson, he maintained that the University ought to ask for its money back because of the subsequent real declines in the endowment—even though managers have out-performed market benchmarks...
...James Madison said in a speech before the Constitutional Convention "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." While almost every person involved in the frenzied financial expansion knew that, it was conveniently forgotten when almost everyone was making money. What the financial community learned from the Madoff scandal is that some people were not making money at all during the great capital bonanza of the last half decade. Prosperity was in tremendous supply because people wanted it to be. Madoff was "making" billions of dollars while actually losing billions. His fund was a pool...
...approval since leaving office, but more out of respect for his humanitarian work than reconsideration of his presidency. "I don't expect many short-term historians to write nice things about me anyway," President Bush told me four years ago, fresh off a winning campaign. "There ought to be a rule where no one writes history about your short term until a generation of those who never voted for you or against you show up, you know what I'm saying...