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We cannot allow the financial sector to simply run amuck, says Rattner. The consequences of not having enough regulation "are way greater than whatever we might sacrifice by having it."
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The former "auto czar" says working in government requires a much more collaborative, consultative, compromising management style than working in the private sector.
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If American taxpayers hadn't spent $82 billion to save the auto industry from economic collapse, "it’s almost impossible to imagine how big the devastation would have been."
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To save the auto industry, Washington needed a group with financial and restructuring skills–and somebody who had a sense of Washington even if they hadn’t worked in the government.
This is the third guest post by Trina Stout in an AoE series on the communication strategies surrounding Colorado’s Amendment 62 – a ballot initiative that, if passed, would grant […]
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A conversation with the Former Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and Lead Auto Advisor.
"Can your social network make you healthier? It's a question that health organizations are asking more and more as part of a wave of new gaming experiments."
"No one wishes for a total Chinese collapse, but certain setbacks should be welcomed." Researcher at Harvard's Center for Chinese Studies Ross Terrill takes China's pulse.
"Within twenty years, astronomy could become the first discipline where discoveries outpace scientists' ability to keep up with them."
"Values are not logical deductions from processes taking place inside peoples’ heads but are instead arrived at through an interplay of experience, reflection, and debate."
Entrepreneurs should focus on building a brand, conserve cash and take care of their health says business consultant entrepreneur Shaun Rein at Forbes.
"Californians will have to decide how much weight to give to respect for adult liberty, protection of minors, fiscal considerations, and protection of marijuana users’ health."
"Ever since Europe's industrial juggernaut grew at a nine percent pace earlier this year—the best in two decades—Americans have looked across the ocean with envy."
"The creator of some of the most iconoclastic and difficult works of 20th-century fiction was surprisingly conservative in his own musical tastes."
Holding a pose that opens up a person's body and takes up space will alter hormone levels and make the person feel more powerful.
Graphene is the world's thinnest and toughest material—a transparent form of carbon one atom thick. Two Russian scientists who isolated the material have won the Nobel Prize.
Here's a horrific miscarriage of justice: Tony Simmons, a former counselor in the New York City juvenile justice system, pleaded guilty to raping a handcuffed 15-year-old girl in the elevator […]
When the Cold War ran red hot, the United States government reached for any weapon available against the “Red Menace.” It’s hard to believe today, when federal funding for the […]
Basketball games, elections and other head-to-head contests seem to affect the testosterone of people who care about them. Some studies have found that testosterone production goes down in fans of […]
Give them stories. Let them read Henry James, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Theodor Dreiser. Let them read Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald. And Styron, Roth, Didion, Bellow, Franzen. Open the treasure […]