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...Germany, where Obama has been immensely popular since he announced his candidacy. In July 2008, just after Obama locked up the Democratic nomination, he gave a speech in Berlin that drew 200,000 cheering supporters - an event that was later mocked by the McCain campaign, which called him the "biggest celebrity in the world" in a TV ad. And because Obama's first-year problems have been largely domestic - such as the drawn-out fight with conservatives over health care reform - his reputation hasn't been tarnished much abroad since that defining speech...
Those packaging these investments say they regarded them as aboveboard, though their defense is less than robust. Key players included leading banks in tandem with some of the biggest names in real estate and private equity, none of whom would have missed that high tenant turnover was the main motor for profits. "We truly went into this trying to turn housing that was run very, very poorly by slumlords into affordable working-class housing, and to be portrayed like this is somewhat upsetting, to be quite frank," says Richard Mack, who works at AREA Property Partners, a $9 billion partnership...
Many had expected the earnings at financial firms to drop in the fourth quarter of 2009. A number of the biggest firms at the end of last year rushed to repay the tens of billions of dollars they had received under the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Analysts said the rapid exit would be costly but would ultimately show that the banks had done a lot to repair their finances...
...even excluding the payments the banks made to the government, the fourth quarter was still a doozy. Sales at Citigroup, for instance, fell in three of its biggest units - investment banking, consumer banking and transaction processing - compared with the prior quarter. So while Citi's government-assistance repayment accounts for a big part of its losses, even without that, the bank still lost $1.4 billion in the last quarter of 2009. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...fish nor fowl: people who might pay for the paper are still going to try to get it for free if there's a way to do so. At the same time, the pay plan will limit the website's traffic - at 17 million monthly readers, it's the biggest of the newspaper websites - and therefore its ad moola...