Word: broking
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...indicator that the circumstances of my life have gone badly wrong. It is the taste of a grimy breakroom at a dead-end job. The grudging cup offered by a non-coffee-drinker during an unhappy visit. The weekend I spent in a dingy Iowa motel when my car broke down the first day I arrived in town for a newspaper internship...
...Crimson broke the story of the new brass bars on its FlyBy Blog on Sunday...
...firm, based in Charlotte, N.C., had never been a big player in the subprime-mortgage business, in either lending or underwriting loans. That prudence led to smaller lending losses at B of A than at Citigroup and other rivals. What's more, while other financial firms were verging on broke, Bank of America seemed to have enough capital to play the role of rescuer in the credit crunch...
While there was some public annoyance with Washington's action, the government's attempt to appeal to Kenyan nationalism may have backfired. Regular Kenyans seem to think that Brother Barack was only doing his familial duty. An unofficial television poll after the news of the U.S. letters broke found that 82% of respondents disagreed with the Foreign Ministry's move to summon Ranneberger. And no one is more critical of Kenya's leaders than Kenyans themselves. "The government's attitude has been that this can't be happening unless somebody's inciting Obama and that it's got nothing...
...FDIC's fund by the same amount that it is boosted by the prepayment. That means, at least on the books, the net effect of the prepayment for the FDIC fund will be nada. So even with the $45 billion coming to it, the FDIC will look broke, and probably stay that way until sometime in late 2012. And that raises the question as to how much a boost in confidence the prepayment plan will be to the banking system. "Does it really spook people that the FDIC has a negative number?" says Miller. "To the public, I think...