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...First, because the crisis has metastasized so swiftly, you three guys have failed to adequately explain the systemic risks that lie behind the decisions to spend billions of taxpayer dollars. The three of you, before Congress and in the press, have spent a lot of time asserting that those risks were there, but I don't think you've ever really explained them. AIG, for example, is now getting $150 billion of our money. But it would actually be nice to know, specifically, why that's the case - and yes, please, bore me with details. Lots and lots of them...
...past several months, luxury businesses have been battening down to cope with a sinking economy. As the consumer pulls back on discretionary spending, luxury executives and retailers are scrambling to redefine themselves. Tiffany & Co. is opening smaller stores. J. Crew has set up shop in a former Tribeca bar and propped it with real liquor bottles along with the bow ties. Times may be tough, but things of great beauty?objects, food, buildings, places, clothing, jewelry?will never lose their appeal. There is a widely accepted theory that in moments of real political, social or economic stress, lipstick sales spike...
...back to the U.S. for a Ph.D. in that field. Sheffield found out he had received the scholarship only a day after his interview in Atlanta. “My flight was delayed in Baltimore so I showed up at Harvard, sleep deprived and angry that I had to spend time in Baltimore,” Sheffield said. “It felt like the beginning of a horror movie—trapped in a hotel in Baltimore. But then I came back and I walked up to my dorm room and I found...
Yesterday’s letter did state that University leaders expect to spend a higher percentage of the endowment next year in an effort to buffer the immediate impact of the losses...
...true that shoppers intend to spend a larger share of their holiday dollars online this year, with 36% of consumers saying they will spend half their shopping budget on the Web, up from 32% last year, according to a Nielsen Online survey. But overall budgets have shrunk, as tapped-out consumers have grown increasingly anxious about the economy. As a result, people are trading down in the stores they frequent and the number of items they buy. Case in point: the most popular product seen on BlackFriday.info's shopping lists was Wal-Mart's Batman and Spider-Man pajama sets...