All bankrupt steel companies have something in common, says Mark Parr of McDonald Investments, a local investment bank: the United Steelworkers of America.

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Paulson, the president and the SEC should also give firm orders to bank regulators to start exercising common sense with regard to their mark-to-market mania.

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Prices would inevitably be rounded up, not down, says Mark Weller of Americans for Common Cents, a pro-penny lobby group.

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Mr Bernanke must also be acutely sensitive to the common criticism that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, overshot the mark by dropping the federal funds rate to 1% in the wake of the downturn of 2001, thereby encouraging the markets into a renewed phase of exuberance.

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Prof Mark described a working sphere as a set of interrelated events with a common goal, communicating with a particular group of people, with specific resources, in its own time framework.

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The common wisdom seems to be that while things worked out peachy for Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, the majority would do better to stick with that Wall Street or McKinsey job.

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