Hints and tips:
...Roubini certainly has form in predicting calamity and investors have learnt to ignore him at their cost (as he quips, he’s graduated from “being a Cassandra to a sage”)....
...When a new technology emerges, there are often Cassandras warning about its potential dangers....
...“It was controlled in Washington, DC, but also decentralized. It was given total control over the money supply, but didn’t replace the private banking system,” writes Leonard....
...You Let Me In Camilla Bruce, Bantam Press, RRP£12.99 Bestselling romantic novelist Cassandra Tipp committed murder twice and got away with it....
...I don’t have any ringing conclusions to this jeremiad except to say I hope that I’m being a Cassandra. The only thing I will confidently predict is that Trump will lose the popular vote in November....
...Martha Mitchell, a Washington socialite and the wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney-general, divulged secrets about the administration’s role in the Watergate scheme and cover-up to the Washington press corps...
...“That would probably be a deal breaker,” said Cassandra Erwin, a young woman from Iowa who said she leaned heavily towards supporting New Jersey senator Cory Booker....
...Pastor Cassandra Gould is a child of the American civil rights movement....
...As you know, I’ve long been a Cassandra on this topic....
...“House sharing, ride sharing, everything sharing,” complained my Cassandra on wheels. “Amazon is driving Wal-Mart out of business! It’s going to get worse before it gets better.”...
...Investors would be wise to ignore the growing chorus of Cassandra cries and look through the noise to the fundamentals....
...From Pollyanna to Cassandra: Chris Giles defends the Office for Budget Responsibility’s gloomy, but reasonable, forecasts in this week’s Budget Germany turns inward: Philip Stephens says Angela Merkel is...
...Lt Cassandra Thompson, a US navy spokesperson, said it was unclear why the Chinese pilot had taken the action....
...Sharpe later taught at the University of Washington, and it was there, in 1966, that he published a seminal paper entitled “Mutual Fund Performance”....
...At the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, his wife Melania exuded a Cassandra-like gloom. What does she know that we don’t?...
...While 20 states in the US and the District of Columbia allow some form of medical marijuana, recreational use is only permitted in Colorado and Washington – where sales are expected to start later this year...
...Mr Netanyahu’s government has long embraced the role of Cassandra in warning of the dangers an Iranian nuclear bomb would pose to the region and – as the country’s ballistic technology improves – Europe...
...As we sat around the dinner table that night, another former Washington luminary – who I shall called Mr P, or Pessimist – was distinctly unconvinced....
...But you do not have to be Cassandra to fear that the Fed exit could lead to a disorderly exit from treasury bonds....
...After Seattle, corporate America becomes increasingly concerned about disaster-induced losses and Mitchell lands a job at a shadowy company called FutureWorld, which has spotted his skill as a contemporary Cassandra...
...Until now, cyberwarfare has been largely confined to Hollywood or to the prophecies of a few Cassandras warning darkly of a “digital Pearl Harbor” or “Cybergeddon”....
...Washington plays an alcoholic pilot who manages to avoid a catastrophe when he lands a passenger jet in terrifying circumstances....
...The midterm Republican electoral victory makes fresh assistance from Washington less likely. State governments facing huge deficits have slashed transfers to municipalities....
...For all his perspicacity and moral rectitude, Dodd earned himself the sobriquet in Washington of “Ambassador Dud”....
...More quixotic solutions are proffered by Parag Khanna of Washington’s New America Foundation think-tank, in his modestly titled How to Run the World....
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