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...Randy Lerner (Aston Villa); and billionaire prestige investors such as the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has invested more than $1 billion in Chelsea, and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year acquired Manchester City. Chelsea, with its 42,000-seat stadium, might be considered an underperforming asset from a strictly business point of view; its revenues in the years since Abramovich took over are far lower than what he has invested. But owning the club may be less a business venture than a vanity investment for the Russian billionaire...
...Both campaigns will employ what they consider their greatest asset: the charismatic and charming candidates themselves...
...campaign staff - and the press corps traveling with him - for dinner and a very dry vodka martini with olives at a downtown Berlin restaurant. Polls have suggested that Obama enjoys overwhelming support over Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain among Europeans, though that has not always been an asset to Democratic presidential candidates in the recent past. Indeed the McCain campaign, which hasn't hidden its frustration this week at the media saturation coverage of the Obama world tour, didn't wait long after the speech to put out a statement scoffing at the whole exercise. "While Barack Obama took...
...been talking about some kind of concert tour. We really love to get together. We make each other laugh still. And we love playing music, so why wouldn't we do that? The Spinal Tap business has been a - what do they say on the business shows? - a declining asset for some time in terms of us. Somebody's making money off of Spinal Tap, but not us. So we thought the 25th anniversary would be a good time to turn that around...
...willingness of central banks to lend almost without limit to America helped create this mess. Cheap money from abroad suppressed U.S. long-term interest rates, helping to set the stage for the housing bubble and its catastrophic collapse. Continuing such inappropriate monetary and exchange-rate policies feeds more asset bubbles in emerging economies as well as global inflation...