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Of the onetime farmers who still proudly celebrate the anniversary of the Great Trek, Slabbert says, "Afrikaners are now bourgeois, upper middle class, the Babbitts of Bloemfontein. They are beginning to feel ashamed of their racism. The tribal bonds are weakening. Afrikaner hegemony and solidarity are crumbling."
The challenge facing the banks is summed up in an arcane and inelegant word: securitization. The term describes a sophisticated method of using powerful computers to package traditional loans into securities. The new instruments are then bought and sold like conventional bonds in the credit marketplace. Securitization is double edged...
We have received scattered reports that a chain letter scheme involving U.S. Savings Bonds has surfaced in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. As you know, these schemes can spread rapidly. The Bureau of Public Dept has asked Federal Reserve Banks to contact all issuing agents informing them of the...
The dollar's continuing plunge created turmoil in U.S. financial markets. As fears mounted that the greenback's weakness would boost inflation, bond prices dropped and interest rates climbed. The rate on 30-year Treasury bonds, for example, reached a 14-month high of 8.18%. The Dow Jones average of...
The classic traditionalist argument against feminism is that there are certain inalienable aspects of womanhood which render moot arguments favoring a strict equality of the sexes. One such facet of feminity, of course, is the woman's ability to carry and give birth to children. This is the one conservatives...