Despite its apolitical mandate, the Federal Reserve remains one of the most politically sensitive institutions in the world, as evidenced by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s opinion column on November 29th. In the piece, Bernanke criticized proposed legislation before the Senate that would seek to curtail powers given to the Fed over its near-century of existence. With approval of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency comes a new regulatory regime that may also threaten the dominant paradigm, changing the way business at the top is done for decades to come. What will ...

Professional chain saws are being used each and everyday, and thus, it would not be surprising to see that because of extensive use, they will accumulate dust, dirt and other substances. These simple steps will help you ensure that your expert band cutters are kept clean. * Before anything else, refer to the operator’s manual on how to clean your skilled band cutter. * Make sure to observe how your mechanical feller looks. If the bar arm is hanging too low, then tighten it. Always make sure to keep it tightened before, ...

At some point in time many of us have sat at home looking out of the window onto a crisp winter, bright blue sky, day wishing that we could sit outside. The sky does not deceive us, even though the sun is out, because we know that outside it is, really, freezing cold. With Charmglow heaters we are able to relax, either by ourselves or with our families, on the patio in our gardens and feel reassured that we are not going to develop frost bite. When thinking about buying one ...

How to buy a garage heater is a good subject and takes a lot of thinking to get the right one. To choose the right garage heaters you need to know just how much space you are going to be heating. It would defeat your purpose if you choose heater that did not fit the space you wanted to heat. You would either be freezing or burning up. You are also going to have to know just what kind of heater you want to heat with. You have several good ...

The French formal garden was, and still is, intended to inspire a sense of awe and wonder in the visitor in much the same manner as the facade of a grand, elite chateau would produce in the viewer. Its carefully sculpted and tightly controlled vegetation becomes a form of organic architecture, and its tight, linear control of all plant life emphasizes man’s complete dominance of nature. The French garden is built around a sheer passion for rigid geometry that emerged out of 17th Century discoveries in optics and ...

The intention of swimming pool design is to improve the property in several respects. First, it creates an exceptionally popular and practical focal point for outdoor entertainment venues. While not everyone may enjoy swimming in a pool, almost everyone enjoys gathering around a pool to relax. Poolside events can be formal or informal and can consist of large or small groups of people. This makes a swimming pool patio the ideal setting for any type of outdoor gathering. Aesthetically, the presence of a pool contributes much to ...

Garden design ideas can be based on a number of things. One of these is geometry. Geometry is important to the establishment of relationships between architecture and landscape elements. Since architecture is by nature inorganic, the best way to link its form to the living forms of Nature is to find repeating shapes that occur in both and magnify these forms in the shape of a garden. Another basis for garden design ideas is the type, or style, of the garden itself. This refers primarily to two ...