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...largest banks. It may be able to sell those interests back into the private market at some point in the distant future. The taxpayer could even end up with a profit, but it never works that way. The money gets diverted by a Senator who needs to build a damn in Oregon to keep his job. (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...
...developing world has had no shortage of dictators who made lofty promises to uplift the poor and build powerful nations. Few ever delivered. But then there is South Korea's Park Chung Hee. A general who took control of South Korea after a coup in 1961, he ruled, often with an iron fist, for 18 years. Yet he was also deeply moved by South Korea's destitution. In the early 1960s, the country's per capita national income was just over $100 and the economy depended on American aid. Park, a virulent nationalist, vowed to do something about this...
Getting to Paris is already becoming easier. While London's maxed-out Heathrow Airport struggles to win approval to build a third runway, Paris' Charles de Gaulle--which has increased capacity 20% since 2006--already operates four, and CDG has even more space set aside for considerable expansion. That will be vital to keep pace with what some forecast to be a 75% to 100% increase in Paris-bound tourism in the next 20 years...
...about half that. Some Florida towns have even enacted minimum square-footage requirements for single-family homes and have all but zoned out affordable rental units. Last year a Miami developer, who was convicted because he used almost $1 million in public funds meant for affordable housing to build upscale condos, received a punishment of only probation...
...sitting here tonight loves this country and wants it to succeed." He continued, "That must be the starting point for every debate we have in the coming months, and where we return after those debates are done. That is the foundation on which the American people expect us to build common ground...