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...Olympics. Brad Humphreys, professor of the Economics of Gaming at the University of Alberta, keeps count on Olympic budgets. His tally is a tale of excess: Athens budgeted $1.6 billion for the 2004 Games but wound up spending $16 billion. Four years later, Beijing budgeted the same amount, $1.6 billion, for the 2008 Summer Games yet spent an enormous $40 billion. London originally planned to spend $8 billion for the 2012 Games; the current estimate is $19 billion and rising. "Once the Games leave town, there often isn't much to celebrate," says Humphreys, noting that host countries nearly always...
...There's no small amount of irony in the fact that Wikipedia's efforts to reduce errors and misinformation have been clouded by misinformation. Or you might say that's par for the course: On the Web, we get to the truth in fits and starts - but eventually, as on Wikipedia, the real facts seep...
...Tuesday, the cash-depleted FDIC hatched a plan to require banks to prepay three years of quarterly fees. The FDIC expects to quickly generate $45 billion in cash, an amount it normally would've had to wait years to get its hands on. But in a quirk of accounting rules, the banks won't have to expense the upfront payments this year, even though they will be handing over the cash in the next few months - in amounts that could run into the billions of dollars for some banks. The FDIC says the move will solve its liquidity problems...
...income statements. Instead, each bank will add an asset, a big one, to its balance sheet, right below where the cash they just handed over to the FDIC used to be. It will be called something like prepaid FDIC premiums. The asset will shrink each quarter by the amount each bank normally would have paid the FDIC. As the bank shrinks the asset, it will book the normal cost it would have paid the FDIC in fees that quarter, except as we all know, the fees will have already been paid...
...think the power balance for international graduate students is a little different,” the grad student said. “I don’t think the department acted at all inappropriately, but because she was an international student, the department held an enormous amount of power over her in the sense that they forced her to leave the country immediately...