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...War-trophy Cassandra and powerless servant Cilissa, played with fierce integrity by Nina Bowers and Kate Stanley Brennan, add to the female voices caught up in the blood-soaked sequel to a gruesome war....
...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 . . ....
...John Redwood is chief global strategist for Charles Stanley....
...“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....
...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...
...I know, because I was one of those Cassandras. …continue reading...
...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?...
...Citadel, Cliff Asness of AQR, Deutsche Bank’s Boaz Weinstein, the elusive Jim Simon of Renaissance Technologies and the invisible Pete Muller, who ran PDT (an in-house proprietary trading group at Morgan Stanley...
...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....
...Suddenly, Cassandra comparisons with 1929 became the conventional wisdom....
...Ask Cassandra....
...But the secret of all-weather optimists is that, just like their counterparts – the perennial Cassandras – they will eventually be proven right....
...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....
...Earlier, we had thunderous hardcore jazz-rock from bass tyro Stanley Clark and efficient smooth-jazz from Bajan Arturo Tappins....
...As commodity markets have shot skywards this year, a chorus of Cassandras has cried “bubble”....
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