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...higher yields. Eager to oblige, Wall Street investment bankers devised ever cleverer ways to package ever riskier loans into high-yield securities. And mortgage lenders came up with ever more creative loan terms to attract customers. This lured "unsophisticated borrowers who had difficulty fully understanding how these products would affect them when interest rates rose and housing prices edged off," says Eugene Ludwig, a former top banking regulator who now runs Promontory Financial Group...
Other than a short aberration in our stock price, it didn't really affect us. The industry has had a so-so track record in M&A over the past three to four years. But if there's a deal that can get done, it's this one. They're addressing all the right hot buttons--providing rate certainty to customers, a premium to shareholders, even an environmental section that would reduce the number of their coal-fired electricity plants. The only wild card here is what regulators and politicians will...
...Both your parents are highly intellectual people. How did their personalities affect your decisions to dance and then your return to school...
...Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology Karin Michels! A study just came out saying that obesity runs within social groups. So does my Felipe’s habit adversely affect the health of my friends? “The bottom-line answer is probably yes, because your friends are going to be going with you when you’re frequenting those various eateries. What you should do is be a role model—say, ‘Lets go to the organic raw food place instead.’ You can turn this around. It?...
...just eats because he knows he has to. In a world of dieting and exercise where being slim is sought after with drastic measures, these guys have the opposite goals in mind: to get bigger, to get stronger, and to become unsurpassable. Does society’s perfect weight affect these men striving for their own perfect weight? “Linemen develop these complexes,” Rodger says. “There are two types: either embracing it, or just doing it because you have to.”But fighting it won?...