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Ford proposed a complex plan to retire nearly 40% of its long-term obligations. The company wants to restructure its debt through a combination of a conversion offer by Ford and cash tender offers by Ford Credit. The car company will attempt to get holders of $4.88 billion in convertible notes due in 2036 to move their holdings into the common stock of the company. The debt carries an interest rate of 4.25%. At the same time, Ford Credit will begin a $1.3 billion cash tender offer to purchase certain series of Ford's outstanding unsecured, nonconvertible debt...
...understand and which he therefore had to destroy.”“The Conqueror” is a pleasant, easy read since it’s broken up into convenient and short chapters. The plot is divided into short scenes in Jonas’ life that attempt to reconstruct and represent the person he has become. The order of these scenes—neither chronological nor under the sway of any organizing voice—and the degree to which each story is important to the novel’s framework are both arbitrary. Unfortunately, a handful...
...fiscal side, most countries are rushing to pass stimulus bills to prevent the phantom of deflation from materializing itself: From developed countries like Germany to developing nations such as India and China, everyone seems to be doing it. By far the most publicized attempt has been President Obama’s euphemistically named American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which flew through Congress a couple of weeks ago. But in measures like these hides perhaps the most pervasive economic threat to future global stability and prosperity: economic nationalism...
...paying homage to the man laying down the tracks—“Before rappers was turning mics on, he was up at 63 Park, playing the right songs,” Lordikim notes deferentially on “Bronx Bombers.” Perhaps in a misguided attempt to echo the uncomplicated wordplay of hip-hop’s early days, the lyrical content becomes hopelessly mired in uninventive rhymes and hackneyed phrases. On “I Got Sumthin’ To Say,” Lordikim flows over the energetic, drum-heavy track to cringe-inducing...
...test Rush Limbaugh and emerge unscathed. After Limbaugh took the RNC Chairman to task in front of his 20 million or so listeners, Steele retracted his remarks, saying, "There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership." So who is this conservative leader (or non-leader), how tightly does he have Republicans wrapped around his finger, and how many five-hour energy drinks did he consume to achieve his enormous decade-spanning staying power? (Read TIME's 1995 cover story about Rush Limbaugh...