Finance drove the action in Sacred Hunger, but rarely intruded on the foreground.
The same interest-rate decrease that helps Mexico's finances drives away risk-tolerant investors seeking higher returns.
Shiller politely points out that he's written some books on the subject*, before arguing that we must make the finance world work better: Finance drives modern civilisation...our best activities have to be financed.
The nadir came right before Christmas 1995, when finances drove them to gather the entire staff in the brick-and-paisley boardroom and between sobs tell them they had to lay everyone off temporarily.
She crisscrosses the country on the company jet, keeps an accountant on the company payroll to mind her personal finances, drives a company Lexus with "MS BUD" plates and says she oversees the company's "strategic planning and corporate vision".
Ireland had to take a bailout of 67.5 billion euros (about $87 billion) from international lenders in November 2010 after investors, fearful of the country's deteriorating finances, drove borrowing costs above 8 percent, about the same levels that led Greece to take a bailout a few months earlier.
(Ironically, though Child casts the wife as the potential spendthrift, in her own life, she was the frugal one, married to a spendthrift editor husband. His poor management of the family's finances drove her to higher and higher levels in her own career).
The men characterized in the article as being at the top of the heap worked in finance, drove luxury cars and advertised lavish weekend getaways on Instagram.
His whole lifestyle is about results—he works in finance, drives an Audi, chugs fish oil, employs the #gymflow hashtag, knows his own blood type, and "isn't just there for the hookup".
The I.M.F.'s financing drive has also been met with raised eyebrows from the cash-rich, fast-growing emerging economies that were expected to provide much of the new money.
