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...These varieties are offered by Thompson and Morgan, my first resort for the latest veg seeds....
...Yi So-yeon is formidable as Cassandra and Choi Ho-Sung’s self-pitying Menelaus provides comic relief. The eight-strong all-female chorus captivates, too....
...While such dour forecasts are sometimes dismissed as Cassandra-like — a reference to the soothsayer of Greek mythology — Mr Sheets noted that Cassandra’s prophesies were actually accurate....
...Mr Bronsnick previously led the pension solutions team at Morgan Stanley....
...Well, those Cassandras will be feeling pretty pleased with their predictive powers today because . . ....
...“Cassandras are loud, whereas optimists are getting on with the job. We are going to break the record and go beyond the Dutch,” he said....
...This, from JP Morgan’s Flows & Liquidity team, gets to the heart of the difficulties (and irritations) involved with looking at the shadow banking system....
...Cassandras....
...Sceptics who warn of impending doom are dismissed as “Cassandras” by those who forget not only their own fragilities but also the whole point about the Trojan prophetess: it was not that she was wrong about...
...There were indeed Cassandras but they were usually to be found at chattering class parties where people announced their determination to be anywhere rather than stuck in London in early August....
...I know, because I was one of those Cassandras. …continue reading...
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...According to one Morgan Stanley estimate, including medical, state and pension liabilities, the real debt-to-ratio of the US in 2009 was 358 per cent. What do these figures really mean?...
...Equally intellectually endowed cassandras, such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb, warned that the models failed to account for sudden price swings that change everything, as had the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot...
...Once again, the China skeptics are out in force, notes Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and clearly not a member of the Sino-Cassandra brigade....
...Even more perversely, the most famous Cassandra was punished for his prescience....
...Similarly, JP Morgan on Tuesday said that from August, some of its customers would see their minimum payments rise from 2 per cent to 5 per cent of their unpaid monthly balances....
...Suddenly, Cassandra comparisons with 1929 became the conventional wisdom....
...Ask Cassandra....
...These children of the 1970s should feel less alien in China’s brave new world, yet several appear to concur with the Cassandra-like visions of their elders....
...The chorus of Cassandras grows louder daily....
...But for the first time since 1999, Morgan Stanley’s chief economist no longer feels has to play the role of Cassandra....
...She, of course, was always right in the end but Cazenove and JP Morgan could not have asked for better market conditions....
...As commodity markets have shot skywards this year, a chorus of Cassandras has cried “bubble”....
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