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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:44:17 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Greenspan's latest gift to the markets.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Last Friday's surprisingly lousy employment report certainly troubled the White House, but it produced at least a few smiles on Wall Street. This evidence of economic weakness indicated that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan would not raise short-term interest rates any time soon. And that gives banks a license to continue what has been one of Wall Street's most lucrative lines of business in recent months—the "carry" trade.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2097084/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Daniel Gross</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:44:17 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The Social Security crisis—solved!</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This is the fantasy of every Washington politician: You wake up one morning, and the Social Security crisis has vanished. Who knows where it went? Maybe a kind old wizard made it disappear. Who cares? It's gone! The magic solution—a Social Security fix with no tax increases and no benefit cuts—is the dream that will not die.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2096880/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Daniel Gross</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:24:53 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Revenge of the bean counters.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  For those of us who follow the corporate scandals, the last several weeks have been pure bliss. In Lower Manhattan, the Martha Stewart jury is deliberating. The Rigas family is on trial for its Adelphia shenanigans. The defense has rested in the Tyco trial. And federal prosecutors have finally secured indictments against two of the most notorious CEOs—Jeffrey Skilling of Enron and Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2096661/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Daniel Gross</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:46:26 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Ad Report Card: Financial Responsibility for Sale</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Firms like John Hancock and The Hartford face a special challenge in building and promoting their brand identities: What they fundamentally stand for is financial responsibility, which at the end of the day is kind of boring. (That's less true for firms built around the idea that financial responsibility is best achieved by way of rapid-fire stock trading, but that's another story.) Recently, these two companies have produced ads that, whatever their relative strengths and weaknesses, are not boring. The Hartford ads involve saving for retirement and estate planning. The John Hancock ads, which are less current but still worth noting, generally turn on the theme of unpredictability as illustrated by scenes of adoption and divorce, among other things.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/1006921/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=7667" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=7667" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Rob Walker</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:08:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Rats in a Rage</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This past November, a study released by a firm called Integra Realty Resources painted a picture of a stressed-out American work force increasingly prone to "desk rage," manifested in shouting matches and even violence. Stories appeared in USA Today and elsewhere, and the issue resurfaces today in the Wall Street Journal under the headline "Increasing Incidents of 'Desk Rage' Disrupt Offices." (Actually there was an earlier bout of publicity about desk rage as well stemming from an earlier survey in the U.K.)<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/1006885/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Rob Walker</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:25:29 EST</pubDate>
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