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- Why Wall Street Analysts Get It Wrong So Often
- I once asked the chief economist of a big-name investment bank why his peers always extrapolate current trends out to infinity to make their forecasts when the central belief of their discipline is that everything goes in cycles. He tried to mount a defense, but his heart wasn't in it....
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
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- State School Students Lose Out on Earnings
- Where you learn determines what you earn, according to a Guardian report on the Sutton Trust charity's research. Over half (well, 51 per cent) of state school students surveyed by the Trust aren't making the connection between top universities and high earnings. Separate figures from the Institute...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
- More Anguish For Afghanistan Our coverage of the war in Afghanistan continued to provoke applause and opprobrium from our readers. One Muslim letter writer urged other Muslims to "reassess our value system and cultivate respect for other religions." Others called for an end to...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Jihadists Using War as Deceit
- "War is deceit," said the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and some of his followers have been putting his words into practice: * While international opprobrium focuses again on Israel for a supposedly errant rocket attack that killed eight Palestinians on a Gaza beach, it has become increasingly apparent that the victims...
- Research articles 2006-06-19
- Stocks scandal spells doom of embattled Israeli army chief
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's army chief, under fire for selling shares hours before launching an offensive in Lebanon, was looking set to become the first head to roll in the outcry over the state's handling of the month-long war. Israel's media have piled opprobrium on Dan Halutz since the...
- Research articles 2006-08-16
- NFL confronts discipline issue
- There are so many ways not to hack it in the NFL. Players are cut for being too slow, too weak, too small and too brittle. A wide receiver with bad hands? Turn in your playbook. Yet in...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
- Exit strategist
- NO presidential aide in the modern era has had as wide-ranging a portfolio as Karl Rove. He was the president's top political adviser, as well as his top domestic policymaker. Some of the opprobrium he has received from the Left is the result of just this combination: Imagine what conservatives...
- Research articles 2007-09-10
- Does MoveOn.org Own the New York Times?
- Another Soros Connection on the Left Soon after the 2004 election, MoveOn.org leader Eli Pariser said of the Democratic Party: "It's our party. We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back." Pariser is now MoveOn.org Political Action's executive director. MoveOn.org's extremism was demonstrated...
- Research articles 2007-11-12
- Goldman chief urges swift business reform.
- A top Wall Street banker on Wednesday demanded quick reforms in corporate governance to rescue American business from an unprecedented 'position of low repute'. Henry 'Hank' Paulson, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said change was needed urgently to restore confidence. Much of the opprobrium was deserved....
- Research articles 2002-06-06
- A lucid analysis of the origins of racism.
- Racism: A Short History, by George Fredrickson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002, 207 pp., $22.95. "Racist" is a term of opprobrium these days. For years, Israel was branded a most "racist nation" and Zionism was equated with racism by the United Nations until...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Wet corporate fingers - Capital Research Center's monitoring of corporations that contribute to leftist charities to avoid public relations embarrassments - Editorial
- FAR FROM carrying the banner for free markets and private property, corporate America generally tries to accommodate to the prevailing intellectual and political winds. Thus the latest edition of Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy, published by the Capital Research Center CRC: "Wet fingers held high in the air, they make 'safe'...
- Research articles 1994-02-21
- The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
- Heather Mac Donald has earned applause from the right and opprobrium from the left for her trenchant essays exploring `the real-world consequences of elite intellectual fads.' One of Heather Mac Donald's more memorable Christmases occurred at her home in Los Angeles during the 1960s when her brother, a budding...
- Research articles 2001-02-26
- The Man Behind the GM Solution
- Tom Lindmark submits: Monday morning we will probably all wake up to the news that General Motors GM has entered into a Chapter 11 proceeding under the United States Bankruptcy Code and most likely emerge as a nationalized industry. These events will have been orchestrated by the current administration...
- External links 2009-06-01
- ARTS: POP - PLACEBO: Brixton Academy London
- Seven years and squillions of column inches of critical opprobrium on, it's easy to forget that Placebo seemed like a good idea in 1996. After all, the frisky threesome's preening pop-punk was a better bet than Oasis and their bloke-ish acolytes. The helium-toned Brian Molko's gender- bending, hedonistic lyrical palette...
- Research articles 2003-04-29
- Bookies go walkies as suspicious betting at Crufts forces William
- Crufts has long been considered a competition of the utmost decorum. The closest it normally comes to opprobrium is someone accidentally picking up an opponent's grooming brush. But this year, the dog show has been rocked by an unlikely betting scandal, with fears that a mystery "super dog" may be...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Brave new world where windows can talk; John Hatfield on all-
- Advertising is addicted to the frisson of giving offence. Courting opprobrium with a controversial marketing campaign has become so normalised (FCUK anyone?) that we hardly notice it. And that's really depressing. In the last few weeks, everything from Barr's Irn-Bru to Channel 4 has been scrutinised by...
- Research articles 2003-08-17
- Blockade Against Cuba Slammed At Summit
- The US blockade against Cuba suffered unanimous opprobrium at the XV Cumbre Iberoamericana in Salamanca, Spain, which ended Oct. 15. All 22 member states of the regional community signed on to a Special Declaration calling for an end to the economic, financial, and trade sanctions the US has imposed on...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- Facebook game firm Playfish sells to EA
- London-based social gaming startup Playfish is celebrating after striking a $400m (£240m) deal to join the world's biggest games publisher, Electronic Arts. After months of speculation over the possibility of a buyout, the Californian publisher announced today that it was acquiring the two-year-old company, which makes popular Facebook...
- News items 2009-11-09
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