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  1. Britain Turns to Canada for Its New Banking Chief

    Sun, 30 Jun 2013

    He got a partial scholarship to Harvard, where he was the backup goalie on the hockey team. Influenced by John Kenneth Galbraith , who pioneered the popular notion that economics should be accessible to the masses, Carney took up economics But

  2. Transcript: The Great American Debates: 'There's Too Much Government In My Life'

    Sun, 18 Dec 2011

    I don't fault the president for having his economic projections wrong. This is a complicated society. John Kenneth Galbraith , one of your liberal friends was once said, that the purpose of economic projections is to make astrology

  3. Transcript: Alan Greenspan

    Sat, 3 Oct 2009

    that could show that just the economy was in far worse shape before. (CROSSTALK) VANDEN HEUVEL: You know, John Kenneth Galbraith once said that astrology -- that economic forecasting exists to make astrology look good. In these conditions

  4. Excerpt: 'Losing Mum & Pup'

    Thu, 25 Jun 2009

    Tammany leader Carmine DeSapio, Abe Rosenthal and Shirley Lord, Mrs. Gary "Rocky" Cooper, David Niven, John Kenneth Galbraith , Sir Harry Evans and Tina Brown, (British director) Peter Glenville, Princess Grace of Monaco, Don Juan

  5. 'Predator' urges change in definition of 'free market'

    Sun, 7 Sep 2008

    Committee. Then he settled in as a professor at the University of Texas. Like his renowned father, economist John Kenneth Galbraith , James is an iconoclast. In previous books, polemics for national magazines and research studies for academic

  6. The Note: Make Room for Fred

    Wed, 30 May 2007

    Imagine the Iowa hog farmer cracking open 'Assault on Reason,' and meeting Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, John Kenneth Galbraith , Walter Lippmann, Johannes Gutenberg, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson and Marshall McLuhan -- all before

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  1. The Note: Make Room for Fred

    Wed, 30 May 2007

    Imagine the Iowa hog farmer cracking open 'Assault on Reason,' and meeting Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, John Kenneth Galbraith , Walter Lippmann, Johannes Gutenberg, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson and Marshall McLuhan -- all before

  2. The Note: Make Room for Fred

    Wed, 30 May 2007

    Imagine the Iowa hog farmer cracking open 'Assault on Reason,' and meeting Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, John Kenneth Galbraith , Walter Lippmann, Johannes Gutenberg, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson and Marshall McLuhan -- all before

  3. The Note: In the Fullness of Time

    Thu, 1 Jun 2006

    and Hart. The attendees at the Harvard Yard memorial service for legendary economist and presidential adviser John Kenneth Galbraith reads like a who's who of Northeast politics and letters. LINK The Boston Globe reports that an Iraq veteran

  4. Throat Clearing

    Thu, 2 Jun 2005

    Donna Brazille, and Eli Pariser strategize for a new progressive majority. At 7:00 pm ET, luminaries honor John Kenneth Galbraith , Ellen Malcolm, and others for their contributions to the cause. In East Windsor, NJ at 1:00 pm ET, Sen

  5. The Note: Throat Clearing

    Thu, 2 Jun 2005

    Brazille, and Eli Pariser strategize for a new progressive majority. At 7:00 p.m. ET, luminaries honor John Kenneth Galbraith , Ellen Malcolm, and others for their contributions to the cause. In East Windsor, NJ at 1:00 p.m. ET

  6. The Note: Throat Clearing

    Thu, 2 Jun 2005

    Brazille, and Eli Pariser strategize for a new progressive majority. At 7:00 p.m. ET, luminaries honor John Kenneth Galbraith , Ellen Malcolm, and others for their contributions to the cause. In East Windsor, NJ at 1:00 p.m. ET

  7. In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2006

    Sun, 12 Sep 2004

    Tiger Woods: "He is my best friend, no if ands or buts about it, he is my best friend." April 30, 2006 John Kenneth Galbraith , 97 -- Economist, writer and diplomat who influenced presidents and the public with his 33 books on economics

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  1. Great American Debate: Part I

    Sun, 18 Dec 2011

    falling I do not fault the press. For having his economic projections wrong this is a complicated society. John Kenneth Galbraith one of your liberal friends once said. That the purpose of economic projections as to make astrology look respectable

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    press. For having his economic projections wrong this is a complicated society. John Kenneth Galbraith one of your liberal friends once said. That the purpose of economic projections as to make astrology look respectable. I don't. Fault
  2. The Roundtable: Another New Deal?

    Sun, 23 Nov 2008

    but He believes in managed form of capitalism. I James Galbraith. Fine economist in his in his own right son John Kenneth Galbraith is rumored possibly be getting a position economic advisors. I would feel a little better if some of those

    John Kenneth Galbraith found at 17:11

    I James Galbraith. Fine economist in his in his own right son John Kenneth Galbraith is rumored possibly be getting a position -- economic advisors. I would feel a little better if some of those folks were

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