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• Quote, unquote

  Had a high school biology teacher, Brother DeSalles Lawless, what a name! This member of the religious order of Xaverian Brothers could spit out quotables like nobody -- a Kentuckian who could out-jive his street-kid students in Brooklyn with lines like: Read More... Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:16 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Wall Street Journal, Sacramento Bee, Brooklyn, McCain, Obama, Xaverian Brothers, health care CEO turnover, Christopher Buckley

• Trippin' with trillions

  Billions are yesterday. Today's bank bailouts/mortgage rescues/international combat live in the land of trillions. $2 trillion is about what American investors have lost in their retirement savings since mid-2007. $2.05 trillion and $1.17 trillion are Read More... Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:56 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: what's a trillion buy?, McCain, National Bureau of Economics Research, privatizing Social Security, Obama, Lewin Group