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American - Author Born: January 6, 1973

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

Job Party Said Fast

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

Trust Company Some Every

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

Matter Meetings Sarcasm Arch

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Body Human Only Trauma

Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth.

Growth Government Grow Understand

The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.

People Sick Medicine Biology

The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.

Achievement Dog Forget Easy

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Sometimes Hands Soldiers Enemy

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

Rules Choose Accounting Financial

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.

Business Bad Doing More

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Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

Change Growth Climate Change Will

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

You Think Never Your

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Trust Game Boring Real

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

Beginning Short Thought Accounting

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

Technology Time Money Information

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.

Pay Where Must Options

The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.

Drawing Feel I Can Real

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

People Reality Wonder Escape

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Sometimes Language Wish I Wish

I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it.

You Think Lawyers Say

The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.

You Care Know Information

Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

Time Vacation Years Over

The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.

Moment American More Pledge

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

Broken Military May Laws

As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.

Soldiers Deserve Say Always

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

War Think Cold Some

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