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Nationally, the idea is similar - pushing back principal payments, not forgiving them entirely, is the solution trumpeted by the FDIC. That seems fairer: telling people that they can get a break now, but will eventually have to pay may alleviate qualms about handing out free rides. Or it may just be dooming us to have this conversation all over again. Unfortunately, without good data on what has worked so far, it's remarkably difficult to determine what to do going forward. Of course, ignoring the issue hasn't worked too well either...
...remarks made in New York, GE (GE) CEO Jeff Immelt said that the economy was in as bad a shape as at any time since the 1974 recession. If it should get worse, he remarked, "Once you break through '74-'75, you don't stop 'til you get to 1929." At almost the same hour, Bill Gross, the undisputed king of the fixed income world and chief of investments at Pimco stated "the U.S. may slump into a 'mini depression' unless policy makers spend trillions of dollars to spur growth." He did not make the distinction between a "mini depression...
...week—the time when students visit firms who have expressed interest in them—is now scheduled for the week of September 14, two weeks after the first day of classes. During that period, the school puts classes on hold for a week-long fall break. In addition to the new recruiting schedule, the Law School will also offer prospective employers the option of using the same timeline as in years past. Although most students interviewed said that they were in favor of the new calendar because it would improve job opportunities and allow students to better...
...this matters because of the situation in Sudan. The country's Khartoum-based government suspects the government of South Sudan of rearming ahead of a 2011 referendum in which southerners will decide whether to break away and form a separate nation. Some analysts have suggested that the tanks could be part of a new, more robust southern Sudanese ground force. Conflict between Sudan's north and south in the 1980s and '90s killed more than 2 million people. A peace deal in 2005 ended hostilities but opened the way for an independent South Sudan, a possibility Khartoum is determined...
...their gadgets - but it is a disaster for manufacturers. At current price levels, chipmakers have a hard time making money. Kim Nam Hyung, chief memory chip analyst at iSuppli in El Segundo, Calif., estimates that the price of 1-gigabit DRAMs, for example, is at about half the manufacturers' break-even cost. "The situation is getting worse and worse," Kim says...