“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.” IfsFactsJobsPoliticalNextSoundIssuesBattleDemocratFinancialDullHorizonRegulationPlatformsItemsFinancial Regulation Author:Thomas Frank
“Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.” WarUseDreamJobsWinningNumbersTalentBattleToolsFinancialFactorsFlexibilityDream JobScheduling Author:Bruce Tulgan
“When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.” StatesAbleMy OwnFiguresBattleAnxietyIndependenceConstantFinancialObligationInsecurityCartoonist Author:Al Jaffee
“Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.” StillsHomeRolesBattleEconomicsFinancialEqualityMakersSpecialtyMoney MakerHome Economics Author:Paula Nelson
“In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.” GivingAttentionBattleFinancial Author:Ian Bryce
“A company that was I think the one I learned the most from in Wall Street 2, just in terms of my own character in and the kind of firm he worked in, was John Thomas Financial. There it's like warriors in an arena getting ready for battle. Thomas Belesis just fires these guys up like there is no tomorrow, and I absolutely got addicted to that optimism and adrenaline and that "We're going to do it, we're going to do it, buddy" kind of attitude that he had.” ThinkingKindCharacterGuyTermAttitudeWallTomorrowBattleOptimismFinancialWarriorFirmBuddyAdrenaline Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.” LooksLongCareCasesEconomyTakenWorstVictoryBattleRemainsFinancialDebtAdministrationReformHealth CareDeficitAmerican PoliticsScenariosInvincibleStunningTollsNational DebtHealth Care ReformWorst Case ScenarioFinancial Services Author:Dee Dee Myers