Rising concern over the size of the federal deficit was a drum that Republican leaders beat through the midterm election campaign, and that concern clearly helped motivate President Obama’s decision Monday to freeze the pay of all federal civilian employees for the next two years, although the savings from that will be a drop in [...]
Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg News Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group. Peter G. Peterson, the billionaire co-founder of the Blackstone Group, was the subject of Deborah Solomon’s “Questions For” column in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. Ms. Solomon asked Mr. Peterson whether he thought it was fair that his proceeds from Blackstone’s [...]
Earlier this month, a Quinnipiac University poll had shown a sharp turn to the negative on public support for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, but a new USA Today/Gallup poll says that while a majority of Americans don’t think the war is going well, their numbers have dropped since earlier in the year. The USA Today/Gallup [...]
As the debate over what critics regard as overly intrusive security measures at airports heats up, a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted Nov. 21 finds that 64 percent of those surveyed support the use of full-body scans while 32 percent say they invade privacy by producing X-ray images of the passenger’s naked body. Four percent [...]
Frank Quattrone, the investment banker whose name is synonymous with the dot-com era, has some advice for today’s entrepreneurs. “It’s a lot easier to go public than be public,” he said on Wednesday, citing the competition from thousands of public technology companies today versus a few hundred in the late 1980s. Mr. Quattrone, who successfully [...]
Support for continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has taken a sharply negative turn with 50 percent of Americans saying the U.S. should not be involved while 44 percent believe fighting the war is the right thing to do, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Nov. 8-15. Six percent were undecided. In all of Quinnipiac’s [...]
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