Epstein Secrets

t economic activity had stagnated in France and declined in Germany and Italy. There have been some bright spots: The Spanish economy i= growing and the European Central Bank is adopting a policy that its chief, Mario Draghi, has dubbed "Whatever It Takes"—meanin= that he is willing to use all the monetary tools at his d

condo towers as tall as the Empire State Building -- and one that will be j=st one foot shy of the new One World Trade Center. Completed t=is year, New York City's One57 reaches 1,005 feet, making it New York's tallest residential building. </=pan>But it will soon be unseated. Within the next two yea=s, both 43

and one that will be j=st one foot shy of the new One World Trade Center. Completed t=is year, New York City's One57 reaches 1,005 feet, making it New York's tallest residential building. </=pan>But it will soon be unseated. Within the next two yea=s, both 432 Park Avenue and 111 West 57th St. are expect

uts and tax increases) self-defeating or the unavoidable response to high budget deficits and debt? Can central banks such as the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank engineer recovery by holding short-term interest rates near zero and by buying massive amounts of bonds (so-called "quantitative easing")? Or will

ocumentary film — The Central Park 5 — on PBS. It chronicles the Central Park Jogger case — an assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a female jogger in New York City's Central Park, on April 19, 1989. In a rush to justice, five juvenile males — four black and one Hispanic — were tried and convicted for the crime. T

he Cyprus deal fatally undermined depositor confidence, thus making bank runs in other countries more likely. Certainly Cyprus and its paymasters in the European Central Bank have broken a taboo of the common European currency by imposing controls on the flow of capital into and out of the country, albeit "temporarily."

sea level rises four to five feet, floodwaters at high tide—begin to spread over the shoreline much of the 127 miles of New Jersey's shoreline and New York's Staten Island, Long Beach, Red Hook Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. So is Galveston, Texas; Harbor Island in Seattle; the Navy Yard in Philadelphia;

nce assumed to be too big to fail will remain heavily exposed to troubled euro-zone countries' sovereign debt, whatever the palliative operations of the European Central Bank. In these circumstances, other players will enter the fray. Watch out for GSO, the credit ann of Blackstone, a private-equity firm. With over $50 b

The fall of the universal bank Exit the rock-star bosses Before the great crash of 2008, the universal banks swaggered around London, Hong Kong and New York. Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche and UBS imagined they could be all things to investors in (almost) all corners of the globe. Five year

er of industrial oil manufacturer Hafa. Bottlenecks in labor supply are one of the main constraints on growth in the European economy, frustrating the European Central Bank. After slash- ing interest rates and pumping billions into the economy with quantitative easing, the ECB says the onus is now on governments to do

n its glittery annual fash- ion show, which became a marketing coup and a much-anticipated event for the men who flocked to it. The first—staged at New York's Plaza Hotel in 1995, the same year real estate developer Donald Trump was forced to sell the legendary hostelry to avoid bankruptcy-included model