The Hunts face Congress and bankers after their fallThose bashful bullionaire brothers W. Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt showed up in public last week for the first time since their speculative bubble burst on “Silver Thursday,” March 27.
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Bankers See a Bonanza in Post-Gaddafi Libya
Muammar Gaddafi remains hunkered down in Tripoli, ever defiant despite the the heaviest bombing of NATO’s three-month campaign. But outside Libya, the talk has moved on from war to the business opportunities offered by a post-Gaddafi Libya
Let Them In: How Brazilians Could Help the U.S. Economy
Everyone should love Brazilian tourists. They spend more per capita than any other nationality.
Airlines Embrace Cost Unbundling
The slopes of the Rockies beckoned for spring skiing.
Syria: If Protesters Don’t Get Assad, the Economy Will
As the crisis in Syria continues, many observers are beginning to say that if the protesters cannot overthrow the regime, the economy will. With political uncertainty at a suffocating level, the Syrian pound has fallen against the U.S.
Sex, Lies, Arrogance: What Makes Powerful Men Behave So Badly?
When her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to run for President of France five years ago, Anne Sinclair told a Paris newspaper that she was “rather proud” of his reputation as a ladies’ man, a chaud lapin nicknamed the Great Seducer. “It’s important,” she said, “for a man in politics to be able to seduce.” Maybe it was pride that inspired French politicians and International Monetary Fund officials to look the other way as the rumors about “DSK” piled up, from the young journalist who says Strauss-Kahn tried to rip off her clothes when she went to interview him, to the female lawmaker who describes being groped and pawed and vowed never to be in a room alone with him again, to the economist who argued in a letter to IMF investigators that “I fear that this man has a problem that, perhaps, made him unfit to lead an institution where women work under his command.” Maybe it was the moral laziness and social coziness that impel elites to protect their own
Downsizing: Today’s Home Buyers Think Small, Practical
During the real estate boom, new home construction became a game of ever increasing square-footage.
Can Obama Use bin Laden’s Death to Help Fix the Economy?
One of the most notable outcomes of the dramatic news that Osama bin Laden has been killed is the feeling of unity across the American political and social spectrums. The event has triggered a shared sense of achievement, pride and common purpose.
‘The Wish and Will of the People Are Not Stoppable’
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The Economy: New & Exuberant
Just one year to the week after the stock market shuddered through its worst crash since 1929, new records are being set by that intricate, delicate and unpredictable entity known as the U.S.