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Consider that the average yield on a one-year CD is 2.39%, the same as it was in mid-August, according to a weekly survey by Bankrate.com, even though the prime rate - the rate at which banks lend to their most creditworthy customers - has fallen from 5% to 4%. That means a bank that used to borrow at about 2.5% and lend at 5% now borrows at 2.5% and lends at 4% - an entire percentage point has been stripped from the bank's ability to make money. More than half of all banks saw their net interest margin - a measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CD-Rate Scramble: Better for Depositors than for Banks | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...partner’s gets the opportunity to driving in the snow for the first time, quite a big deal for someone who hails from Orange County. On my own end, I discovered for that “first time” that blasting the same Girl Talk demo CD for three hours is actually really fun. I would never have known either of these things without making the trip there and back in one day.Do not misunderstand me. Watching a game at the Lydah Arena is a sporting experience unlike any other. Covering the game itself, one in which...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HAMMIN' IT UP: On the Sports Road Again | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

Speaking of, where's the sample CD, Pitchfork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pitchfork 500 | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...giving me a postmortem on my performance. (Her bemused verdict: "You have Caribbean feet, but I have no idea what your butt is doing.") Just then, "La Jinetera" by the staunchly anti-Castro Miami singer Willy Chirino came through the speakers. It must have been the driver's CD--the song would never have been allowed on state-run radio. Chirino, a Cuban-born exile, has always been a little too naked in his politics for my tastes, and this song is no different, a lament about a teenage hooker who's dismal in "a land where the future jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Dressed in a green T-shirt, brown zip-up hoodie, jeans, and sneakers, the only hint that Charles C. Davis is a biologist comes from the stitching of a plant on his jacket arm. Around his office lies a Chopin CD, a bobblehead tiger (given to him by his mother), and an Indian decorative cloth that his friend gave him when Davis was planning to become an engineer...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Walden Data Aids Climate Science | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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