Oliver Stone, who this week will begin shooting his sequel to “Wall Street” (1987), stands outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Lower Manhattan.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times Last Tuesday afternoon, a black Cadillac Escalade arrived at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Lower Manhattan, built in the 1920s to resemble the Renaissance-era palaces of Florence, Italy. From a
Sergio Fuentes sought help from a state worker while looking through listings in San Jose, Calif.Credit...Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Such an outcome would confront the Obama administration with a potentially nettlesome political problem heading into next year’s midterm elections. After the government unleashed $787 billion to stimulate economic growth, and after it bailed out financial instituti
I. MISTAKING BEAUTY FOR TRUTH It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes — or so they believed — were both theoretical and practical, leading to a golden era for the profession. On the theoretical side, they thought that they had resolved their internal disputes. Thus, in a 2008 paper titled “The State of Ma
Researchers use a floating platform to take sediment cores from Sunday Lake in southwestern Alaska.Credit...Darrell Kaufman/Northern Arizona University The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Scientists familiar with
Japan's next Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, said on Thursday that he would not change the alliance with the United States. Credit...Junko Kimura/Getty Images TOKYO � Scrambling to mend fences with his country’s biggest ally, Japan’s next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told President Obama and the United States ambassador on Thursday that the American alliance was the basis of Japanese foreign policy. In
Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones. It’s a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can also use 10 times the network capacity used by the average s
TOKYO � Japan’s opposition party won an overwhelming victory at the polls on Sunday pledging to increase social welfare, better protect workers and do away with American-style, pro-market reforms to lead the country out of its long slump. But while the presumptive prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, rallied campaign crowds with his pledge to shift away from the “excessive” market reforms of recent yea
DETROIT � Auto sales perked up in August because of cash for clunkers, but both General Motors and Chrysler struggled after emerging from bankruptcy protection. Total industry sales in the United States increased 1 percent during the month compared with August 2008, and rose 26 percent compared with July. Much of the improvement was attributed to the government’s popular cash-for-clunkers program
Abdullah Abdullah, center, President Hamid Karzai's top opponent in the election, in Kandahar.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan � Just a week before this country’s presidential election, the leaders of a southern Afghan tribe called Bariz gathered to make a bold decision: they would abandon the incumbent and local favorite, Hamid Karzai, and endorse his challenger, Abdulla
Following is the transcript of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. CROWD: Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama! My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our
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