Jerry A Webman In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don’t have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government. – Jerry A Webman Appearance Quotes Banks Quotes Convertible Quotes Government Quotes Handsoff Quotes Money Quotes Preferred Quotes Rights Quotes Shares Quotes Stock Quotes Treasury Quotes Typically Quotes Voting Quotes The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.
Nick Offerman I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather. – Nick Offerman
Leslie Jamison My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people. – Leslie Jamison
Samantha Power When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. – Samantha Power
Charlotte Rampling I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, ‘If it works, it works.’ But I’ve always been like that. I’ve never been easily impressed, and I’ve never thought I didn’t deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it. – Charlotte Rampling
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