| Why Are You Looking for the Living Among the Dead?
Y'all know I always write about Easter because a) Easter is my favorite holiday b) the topic of the ressurection of the body just seems so appropriate to a blog about CR. My mother and I attended the beautiful 9 am Easter service at Riverside Church, one of the great American Protestant cathedrals, in Morningside Heights of New York. It was just amazing... the music, the flowers, the sanctuary itself. The preaching was kinda so-so, but I've heard so much great preaching in my life that I'm way too harsh a judge. My dad and I used to play church critic every Sunday in the car on the way to lunch after service... drove my step-mom crazy. Anyhow, the service was re-vitalizing, and I found myself meditating again upon the life-affirming message of Easter. As I've written before, my theology is way more complex than a simple, "Adam and Eve sinned so Christ died and now everything is okay," type of Christianity.
Searching for employment off the beaten path
It's hiring season once again. For those who are not going straight on to graduate school, hundreds of thousands of undergraduates from across the country are all trying to clamor for the same few coveted positions in the same prestigious top-tier Fortune 500 companies.
For some of these companies, the chances of landing a job as a new graduate can seem like winning a lottery.
"It's in the thousands and thousands," said Morgan Stanley's Stephanie McMichael, on the number of applications the bank receives every year from graduates.
For anyone who has already begun this mind-numbing process, you will be familiar with the graduating Catch-22: Companies only want to hire someone with experience, but it's experience that you're looking to get at your first job.
DNasty Boy
T he initial public offering of Dana Vachons first novel, the Wall Street satire Mergers & Acquisitions, was still a few weeks off when we met for lunch at Le Colonial, a sort of Indochina theme restaurant on East 57th Street where the ceiling fans turn slowly and even the wait staff seem stunned by the nonexistent tropical humidity. Vachon is 28 and dressed for a Saturday of shopping in downtown Greenwich, in a blazer and open-necked Ralph Lauren shirt and loafers. Hed suggested this place because it was where the send-off party was held for Roger Thornethe name of a character in his bookwhen he left to be a war profiteer. Except that never happened in the book. Oh, he meant the real-life Thorne, the one he met at JPMorgan, where he started interning in his sophomore year in college in 2000 and went to work in 2002.
BAN THE BANKS
NEW YORK--I was 17, and it was the summer between my high school graduation and freshman orientation week in college. My mom drove me downtown to the Gem City Savings building, where I signed a pile of loan applications I wasn't given time to read. Which was just as well, since I was 17 and not a lawyer and wouldn't have understood them. If the banker had told me that I'd end up paying $820 a month until I was 32 years old--which was more than my salary--I might have reconsidered going to college. Student loans are big business. In 2006 banks lent college students a whopping $85 billion. Choose your comparison: that's the same amount AT&T paid to purchase the BellSouth telephone company and that the U.S. paid for a year of the Iraq " /> Iraq War. It was only a matter of time before this unregulated marketplace attracted the voracious vultures of corporate America.
Q2 2006/07 Mediobanca Earnings Conference Call - Final
ALBERTO NAGEL, GENERAL MANAGER, MEDIOBANCA: Okay, we can start. Thank you for joining this call regarding the first half results. We would like to have a brief presentation with three sections. Group results, next point, half way in the three year's plan, and a short analysis on divisional results, and then more time for your questions. Group results. We started this year - that is our second year plan - from a very high result of last year, first half. You see, we had 42% increase in our revenue and we have doubled last year our net profit. So, the starting point was very high. And I think we managed very well this year to confirm last year's excellent performance, both in terms of Banking and EIP result. We are ahead of our budget of this year, and basically you see on page two we had a 27% increase -- a 26% increase in net profit from EIP and minus 8% a net profit from Banking.
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