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...Another reason you're a bad mother... So many...
...paradox in all this is that the less market-oriented solution might ultimately be the most efficient and market friendly. Taking over troubled financial institutions for a short period of time and separating the bad part of their business from the good part of their business - cleaning them up - will likely arouse investors' interest and reduce uncertainty enough to attract capital...
...Banks may have the option of asking the government to convert preferred shares owned by the taxpayer due to original TARP investments into common shares, or they can raise private capital. That could completely negate the need for any more direct investment by the government. The action would be bad for bank shareholders who would be diluted but good for taxpayers at least to the extent that their contributions to The Great American Bank Salvation Pool will be over. (Find out 10 things to do with your money...
Being rich during a recession can almost be as bad as being poor. The only difference is that the rich have more to lose. RealtyTrak, a research firm that follows mortgage trends, recently reported that the foreclosure rate on homes valued at more than $729,750, also known as the jumbo-mortgage limit, rose 127% in the first ten weeks of this year compared to the same period a year ago. Bloomberg, reports that "about $500 billion of prime-jumbo mortgages are bundled into bonds, according to Memphis, Tennessee-based FTN Financial." The default rate on those bonds may rise...
...year. So far, 31 students have elected to defer, a number that the admissions office expects to rise. This number is usually between 30-50 students and does not seem to be affected by any particular variable, Fitzsimmons said, though he added it was possible that the bad economy could cause fewer people to defer this year. —Staff writer Jillian K. Kushner can be reached at kushner@fas.harvard...