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Far and wide, no new "Apocalypse Now." Seven years after the drama of Sept. 11, 2001, there is no such terror movie that can compare to that of Francis Coppola's Vietnam. In short, Ridley Scott's "Body of Lies" disappoints, as before "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Rendition" did.… Post the First Comment

Ethiopian cuisine's still fairly esoteric here in the Bay Area. Though you can get sashimi, eggplants in bean sauce almost as easily as you can get a burger, getting a mouthful of Injera bread's another thing. Zeni, of Saratoga Avenue, makes a good case in suggesting that this is a drastic oversight on part of Bay Area foodies.… Post the First Comment

Gabriella Batmani Women's soccer team Major: Criminal Justice In the 22nd regular season games total, freshman goalkeeper Gabriella Batmani prevented nine teams from putting the ball into the net. For each of those nine games, Batmani was able to help her team come out with a stunning victory and didn't let any of those games end up in a draw.… Post the First Comment

When the De Anza College men's basketball team took to the court for their first home game against Chabot, they didn't foresee a 30-point demolishing. The Gladiators had size on the Dons, whose tallest player measures up to be 6 feet 5 inches. De Anza fell behind early, 12-2 after a 10-0 run by Chabot, and couldn't quite match the intensity and communication proved to be a hindrance to De Anza.… Post the First Comment

Dressed in their home whites and coming off a victory against Solano College, the De Anza College women's basketball team faced one of California's top ranked teams, the Fresno City College Rams. However, it was a losing effort. The Dons came to within 11 points in the second half, but the Dons came up short in their attempt to knock off powerhouse Fresno, losing 71-51 They started off on a bad foot stumbling into six fouls and turning the ball over five times to the Rams, all within the first seven minutes of the game.… Post the First Comment

What would become known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP - get it?) began as an incredibly vague and audacious 2-and-a-half page document designed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. After months of ad hoc attempts to stave off a financial crisis, which included the shotgun marriage of investment bank Bear Stearns to JP Morgan Chase and ministered by the Federal Reserve, the government takeover of insurance giant American International Group and home mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and various other moves by the Fed - such as cash infusions, lowering short-term interest rates and a plan to pay interest on commercial banks' reserves being held by the Federal Reserve - and with credit markets getting colder and colder, and with signs of recession becoming more and more visible, government officials apparently decided that what now was needed was an actual "coherent" plan.… Post the First Comment

Up to this point, the United States has experienced ten recessions since the end of World War II. And since the double dipper of the early 1980s, recessions have been less frequent and rather mild. Today our economy is facing a financial crisis of perhaps unprecedented scope.… Post the First Comment

With or without the failure of the recent rescue/bailout plan, the current United States financial/credit market crisis could very well result in a serious overall economic meltdown in both the U.S. and a good part of the rest of the world. At first glance, it may seem rather amazing that a meltdown in the subprime mortgage market - not unsubstantial, but proportionally not a huge part of the overall mortgage market - could cause such devastation.… Post the First Comment

It's hard to believe that we're coming to the end of another quarter, and hence the final installment of Economics for Everyone - that is, until the coming quarter. And like you perhaps, I am feeling a bit torn and frayed by the seemingly never ending turmoil in, and bad news coming out of, the world of finance and the economy.… Post the First Comment

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." -John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), Canadian-American Economist The headline of a recent article posted on Al Jazeera's Web site reads, "Is this the end of U.S. capitalism?" An October article from WashingtonPost.… Post the First Comment

A couple of days after the conclusion of our historic presidential election, I was sneaking out of my apartment in an attempt to get to the carport and into my vehicle without running into one of my neighbors. Alas, I was not sneaky enough, and of course right away I was trapped in a discussion about the election results, the economy, the new president-elect and his plan for the economy.… Post the First Comment

Well folks, its official - the United States economy contracted in the third quarter of this year (at this point, anyway). To use my always reliable boxing metaphor, after demonstrating incredible resilience to the brutal pummeling the economy has endured over the last few years, it's finally taken a few too many to the chin and is now down on the mat.… Post the First Comment

Ah, what a glorious time to be an economics instructor (in a sick sort of way). Suddenly, we have found ourselves quite popular on and off campus. It used to be that when people asked me what I did for a "living," I used to lie so they'd continue talking with me.… Post the First Comment

It appears that the Federal Government has FINALLY settled on a plan - TARP II, or is it III? - that will be implemented in an effort to save our ailing credit markets and keep the economy from sliding into a deep and prolonged recession. As a result, I have lately begun to immerse myself in a number of articles to learn more about the intricacies of the deal, and while doing my research, two things stood out: it seems that the Treasury is no longer referred to as THE Treasury, but simply "Treasury" (fascinating); and the other thing is, the cliché used most commonly when discussing the particulars of the plan is always, "the devil's in the details.… Post the First Comment

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