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...town of Charlottesville, Va., there is an unassuming door with a buzzer next to it marked Oakwood Books. It doesn't look like much--it's next door to a mini-mall--but behind it is an enterprise that earns in the neighborhood of $20 million annually. Its sole asset fits in a comfy chair at a red-leather-covered conference table. The asset is good-natured and at ease with himself. With his smooth Southern accent, listening to him talk is like sniffing bourbon...
Chávez considers his bravado his chief asset, but critics say it too often makes it hard to take him seriously as a statesman. While Ahmadinejad wowed U.S. audiences with his verbal dexterity last week, Chávez seemed only to enhance his reputation for gratuitous Bush baiting. After Chávez's speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chávez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with...
...cashing in on your house makes sense as a last resort. The good part is that the bank can't force you out even after paying the full purchase price. But the not-so-good part is that you could lose control of what may be your largest asset, including the ability to pass it on to your children. For all those reasons, "we don't consider the house an income source in our calculations," says Sophie Beckmann, a financial planner at A.G. Edwards...
...distributions and inflation?†El-Erian said in a phone interview. “Yes, we came in at double that amount.†HMC’s performance was particularly strong in emerging markets—the University earned a 37.8 percent return in this asset class, which includes industrializing economies such as India, China, Russia, and Brazil. “It’s an area that promises returns, but it’s going to be a bumpy ride because what’s happening underneath all that is a realignment in the international...
...outperformed its benchmarks in all but two asset classes, with particularly strong performance from international equities, emerging equities, and commodities. Emerging markets earned the highest returns, at 37.8 percent, in line with HMC’s increased emphasis on a global outlook...