Monday, November 10 2008

Auto bailout and jobs

"One job in Detroit will affect seven more in the economy." — Micheline Maynard, The New York Times

Where (and how) you'll find jobs under a president Obama

"You could walk through any store in Manhattan right now and you could bowl down the main aisle. There aren't any people." — Financial consultant Alvin Hall

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Transition

"There will be quite a lot of tension in this meeting today because they have different world views." — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the New York Times

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Porsche

"They made eight times more money selling option trades than they did selling cars." — Daniel Schafer, Financial Times

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Lieberman

"Most of the voters of Connecticut think Joe Lieberman is out for Joe Lieberman." — John Dankosky, WNPR Hartford

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China and Russia

"China's economy is growing and it has a stranglehold on a lot of American assets." — David Barboza, The New York Times

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Poker

"The total pot for the World Series of Poker is about $180 million. It's up from $160 million last year." — Gary Belsky, ESPN the Magazine

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Obama & food crisis

"That took a third out of your grain supply of the food market and that was a big hit." — Paul Collier, Oxford University

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Congo

"In this province alone it's estimated there are a million people who have now been left homeless. A fifth of the population."
— Mark Lowen, BBC News

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Lee Atwater

"He learned how to reach to the heart of our deepest fears about race and crime." — filmmaker Stefan Forbes on Lee Atwater

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"She was someone who always wanted to cook for all her musicians. Every time we were on tour, she would always invite us in." — Music producer Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, remembering "Mama Africa" Miriam Makeba

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