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Faulk, David Murfee and Adrienne Kinne •whistle blown on NSA eavesdropping on phone sex calls...
...make payroll, since short-term borrowing is unavailable. Two out of three city finance officers are reporting that they're less able to make up budget shortfalls this year. Municipalities are facing skyrocketing borrowing costs--some of it tied to complex derivatives contracts they agreed to that have blown up with the rest of Wall Street's toxic securities...
...longer know what to make of Brown. The Bears won a game they had no business winning against Harvard and confirmed their status as the trendy Ivy League pick in Week 2. Then they go ahead and get blown out by a 2-4 Rhode Island squad. If the Open Curriculum All-Stars would stop choosing when to win and lose the way they choose classes, maybe my job would be a little easier...
...mess caused by fast-and-loose mortgage lending in the U.S. has now blown into a perilous global crisis of confidence that has revealed both the scale and the limitations of globalization. Finance is built on trust, and suddenly that trust has been replaced by fear: fear among depositors from Madrid to Macao over the safety of their money; fear among banks worldwide about lending to one another; and now fear among politicians, central bankers and regulators that they don't have adequate tools to fix the problem...
...intense, so they wouldn’t think to go to UHS or the Bureau of Study Council, then it’s easy for them to just drop in.” “It’s good because people whose problems might not be full-blown will be targeted,” she added. Although Barreira said he wants to wait for a few weeks to gauge the success of the fledgling program, he said he’d like it to continue year-round. “We strive to have a kind of public...