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...from the New York City end, Salinger tries to corral the bank's CEO, Jonas Skarssen (Ulrich Thomsen), a dimpled smoothy who woos rebel chiefs on three continents with arms shipments for their would-be revolutions. Osama bin Laden needn't have buttonholed his Saudi relatives for al-Qaeda cash; he could have gone to Skarssen. As the banker tells an African insurgent, "The real value of a conflict, the true value, is the debt it creates." Hearing the outlines of this conspiracy, today's viewer feels almost nostalgic, since it's a nightmare scenario from the first years...
...details about the likely return on the investment. But even the minimal strings attached did not prevent the first $350 billion from vanishing, with the government overpaying about $78 billion for the assets it bought. The banks told pesky reporters and congressional watchdogs that how they spent the bailout cash was really none of their business. And now, Tim Geithner informs us, the financial system needs $2 trillion more...
...dismal. "What we have to do is make sure the passionate fan becomes more passionate," says Burton. "We have to make sure the casual fan becomes the passionate fan." There's just one crucial thing Burton and NASCAR can't do for their fans. They can't drop more cash in their pockets...
...money to build the house, Dostum says, came from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for whom he was military chief of staff. According to Dostum, Karzai pays him $80,000 a month to serve as his emissary to the northern provinces. "I asked for a year up front in cash so that I could build my dream house," he says...
...economic crisis continues, more households are growing their own vegetables as a way to save cash. Seed sales at two gardening companies, W. Atlee Burpee and Park Seed, have soared 20% in 2009. The National Gardening Association expects home gardening in general to increase 20% this year...