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GDP drops 6.2%, more than estimated

This is another step toward creeping nationalization. This country is going through no less than an economic revolution,” said Levitt, a board member of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.

Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Robert frank
Garry winograd
Stephen shore
Paul graham

And the idea of media clubs – united artists and news

Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement
By OLIVER SCHWANER-ALBRIGHT
Published: February 25, 2009 
The borough has become an incubator for a culinary-minded generation whose idea of fun is learning how to make something delicious and finding a way to sell it.

There is no question that this is one of the most difficult periods we have encountered during the FDIC’s 75 years of operation

—FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair

No one can deny that the recent economic downturn has badly hurt corporate earnings. But let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that this is an expensive market.

Jeremy Siegel, Wharton School

Someday, when scholars are trying to fingerpoint the nadir of the post-Bush Republican Party, they may arrive at Jindal’s speech tonight. Though it was a tough moment for any Republican to give the opposition response, his speech came across as unserious in content and condescending in its tone.

Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at University of Maryland

A lot of Republicans I am speaking with were expecting this would be like Obama’s moment in 2004. He bombed out. It lessens his (Jindal’s) chances of really looking seriously at 2012. The person who was probably helped the most is Mitt Romney. By Jindal really flubbing up last night Romney was helped by a lot of conservatives who thought he was too old.

David Johnson, a Republican strategist who advised Bob Dole in 1988

Jindal seemed more like a high school student giving a valedictory speech than a potential future leader of the party

Philip Klein of the American Spectator

we give up!

The customer’s very tentative. They’re buying what they need and they’re being very smart about how they spend their money.

—Myron Ullman , CEo, J.C. Penney Co, during this month’s investor meeting

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