Epstein Secrets

alist asked 'Does that mean we're bound to lose?' During hot 'small' wars, debate turned to Athens' calamitous Sicilian expedition as a parallel to Vietnam or Iraq. But with an emerging power challenging the existing strategic order of the Far East, attention turns back to the Greek precedent of bipola

, and how vulnerable debt- burdened families were to a plunge in housing prices — the clean little secret of recent years is that, since the fall of Lehman Brothers, basic textbook macroeconomics has performed very well. But policy makers and politicians have ignored both the textbooks and the lessons of histo

r, the United States embarked on one of the most savage "all- out" bombing campaigns of the entire war. Nixon came to office thinking that the war in Vietnam was winnable, but soon he and Kissinger, knew they could not win the war, says Historian Mel Small, author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon. And

inary chain of events: • General Motors, the world's largest company, went bust. • Washington Mutual became the world's largest bank failure. • Lehman Brothers became the world's largest bankruptcy ever. • The damage quickly spread around the world, shattering global confidence in the fundamental structur

le it's u= for debate whether the embargo was ever a smart policy, today it's clearly anachronistic. The United States now does bu=iness with China, Vietnam and Russia, but not Cuba. The policy, first partially implemented in 1960, has survived 11 U.S. presidents with nothing to show. =ive it a rest. Th

mon practice to make decisions that gooses the stock price prior to compensation review. Case in point: the top five executives of =ear Stearns and Lehman Brothers received more than $2 billion is stock options and cash compensati=n in the last two years including settlements when their companies collapsed:40=A

U.S. to win a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics. Died Oct. 3. Vo Nguyen Giap, 102. The North Vietnamese general whose fighters drove the French out of Vietnam in 1954, then served as commander-in-chief against U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Died Oct. 4. Ovadia Yosef, 93. An ultra-Orthodox rabbi who ga

anaging director at Cantor Fitzgerald, he worked at Wasserstein Perella & Co., where he advised clients to sell Enron prior to its collapse, and at Lehman Brothers, where he warned colleagues in 2007 that the bank had taken on “far, far too much risk” by betting on the U.S. housing market. Died of an aneurysm o