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...math, and you can begin to understand how really botched this bailout has been. Since October, the government has deposited $165 billion into the accounts of the nation's eight largest banks. Yet those same financial firms are now worth $418 billion less than they were four months ago, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the government's preferred shares are worth at least $20 billion less. In Wall Street terms, that's throwing good money after bad. All told, the government's annualized rate of return on its investment in the nation's largest banks...
During her day in Cambridge, Zellweger will participate in the Hasty Pudding’s traditional parade down Mass. Ave. The parade will begin at the Inn at Harvard at 2:30 p.m. Zellweger will travel the parade route in a Bentley convertible loaned to the theatrical group by Bentley Motors...
...addition to the boosted publication schedule, Let’s Go also intends to begin providing online supplementary content for its guidebooks and an interactive trip planner, according to Publicity and Marketing Director Vanessa J. Dube...
...respect will be paid to Muslims by the Obama Administration. The long-term goal is to weaken the regional tyrants and extremists by depriving them of the Great Satan caricature - the first step toward a more plausible U.S. policy in the area, the threshold necessary for creative negotiating to begin...
...while. By June, there will be grousing that Obama hasn't pulled us out of the recession yet. By December, there will be complaints that his diplomacy hasn't achieved breakthroughs. The President's best-case scenario is similar to Reagan's: that the bad news will begin to dissipate by the midterm elections of 2010, limiting the Democratic losses, and disappear entirely by 2012. Reagan was lucky in that way. Obama is facing more difficult problems and might not be so lucky. But at least, for the moment, he is paying his public the great compliment of taking...