In line with what Ed says below about the tone of POTUS’ comments to the New York Times, a very excellent and very short book has just come out from the Hoover Institution Press...
The severity of this recession has stimulated calls for greatly increased regulation of the financial sector, and for changes in some of the present regulations...
It is going to be fascinating to see how long Kevin Rudd, the greatest illusionist ever to become prime minister of Australia, can maintain this illusion of omnipresent leadership created by his energy, his ubiquity and his hypocrisy...
In a conversation a couple of months ago at Canary Wharf, a senior manager in financial services observed that recent years had seen an erosion of the notion that certain enterprises necessarily took time to deliver and that therefore it was a mistake to look for maximal profits on the basis of a balance sheet covering only one or two years...
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