Hockett
Americannoun
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Explicitly insuring all deposits, Mr. Hockett says, could prevent a run on a troubled bank, because customers would know ahead of time that their money was safe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
There was this sense that there were no limits in American policy — it was very vertiginous, almost dizzying,” Hockett said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2022
Hockett saw Loder’s name on Ancestry.com’s birth date index in 2018 and looked for other records.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Robert C. Hockett, a Cornell University law professor who has advised Mr. Sanders on climate change policy, said the country now needs more than just a carbon tax.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
Ben Hockett, the only one of the three who had worked inside a big Wall Street firm, also tended to travel very quickly in his mind to some catastrophic endgame.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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