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...imagine—the Bank of New York versus this poor black man in Dorchester earning $700 a month in Social Security,” he says. “He didn’t even know the property foreclosed, he’s not the most sophisticated of people, and he’s living in a bedroom of a house just trying...
...good lawyer, you can whack a landlord for a good amount of money,” Haller says. “But I feel bad whacking people, I don’t feel so bad hitting the bank...
...Explaining his personal investment in his cases, he mentions a client who used her settlement money to study to become a pharmacist overseas. Money, Hartigan says, can change lives quickly and visibly—even as the changes in bank policies can seem grating and slow...
...President in 2016. Meantime, he said, he wouldn't mind getting a Cabinet post, an ambassadorship or even a high-paying corporate gig. Driving these fantasies was his statutory power to name a replacement for former Senator Barack Obama - a power that to Blagojevich seemed like money in the bank. "I've got this thing, and it's f______ golden," he told an aide a day after the November elections on a home phone that was tapped by the FBI. "I'm just not giving it up for f______ nothing...
...result marked the country's first decline in exports in seven years and was a sharp reversal of the double-digit growth rates manufacturers have typically posted in recent years. The drop was "a shock figure," says Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "I had expected exports to collapse in the final few months but not to this extent. There really isn't a precedent. It underscores the magnitude of the global slowdown and fact that it's spilling into China...