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- July posted on 04/03/2009Unemployment rate highest since late 1983; 663,000 jobs lost The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since late 1983, as a wide swath of employers eliminated 663,000 jobs. It's fresh evidence of the toll the recession has inflicted on America's workers, and economists say there's no relief in sight. If part-time and discouraged workers are factored in, the unemployment rate would have been 15.6 percent in March, the highest on records dating to 1994, according t
- The Art of Finance by Harold James PRINCETON C In the middle of Septembers financial meltdown, a remarkable event occurred in London. While the City of London was shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the run on HBOS, Sothebys staged a record-breaking auction for the works of the artist Damien Hirst, which produced a gross take of around $200 million. Compared to the values that were being destroyed on Wall Street, this was small change; but it was a remarkable vote of confidence in the
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- ¹ϣ posted on 04/02/2009The New York Times Maurice Jarre By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, March 31, 2009 Without Maurice Jarre, who died last week at 84, who would David Leans Lawrence of Arabia be? Peter OTooles deliquescent eyes, shimmering in the desert light, would have been little more than a silent mirage. Jarres 1962 film score, which won an Academy Award, is a reminder that in the movies there is no character and no landscape unless there is a musical soundscape too. Maurice Jarre, Hollywood Composer, Dies at 8
- touche posted on 04/02/2009Former AIG chief: Bailout not working Congressional panel probing collapse of AIG hears from Hank Greenberg, who built the company into an insurance powerhouse that later collapsed. By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney.com senior writer Last Updated: April 2, 2009: 2:01 PM ET WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- Former AIG Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, blaming his successors for the mistakes that led to the company's failure, told Congress Thursday that the government's plan to unwind the giant ins
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- maya posted on 04/02/2009(Theme from M*A*S*H*) Through early morning fog I see, Visions of the things to be, The pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see... [REFRAIN]: That suicide is painless. It brings on many changes. And I can take or leave it if I please. I try to find a way to make, All our little joys relate, Without that ever-present hate, But now I know that it's too late, and... [REFRAIN] The game of life is hard to play, I'm gonna lose it anyway. The losing card I'll someda
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- July posted on 04/02/2009Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Hardcover) by Liaquat Ahamed In December 1930, the great economist Maynard Keynes published an article in which he described the world as living in the shadows of one of the greatest economic catastrophes in modern history. The world was then 18 months into what would become the Great Depression. The stock market was down about 60%, profits had fallen in half and unemployed had climbed from 4% to about 10%. If you take our present situation, 16
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