Word: cheap
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...where Land Rovers and private jets seem to outnumber the nation's 308,000 people - was growing too quickly, and that excessive consumption would cause the economy to overheat. Yet the nation's three largest commercial banks - Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir - continued to exploit their then strong currency and cheap credit to buy banks in Denmark, Norway and the U.K., as well as British retailers like House of Fraser and Moss Bros. They amassed foreign assets equivalent to 800% of the nation's GDP, the highest ratio of any country in the world. Meanwhile, their dependence on global capital markets...
...also put an end to cheap credit. Mortgage lenders were happy to coddle British homeowners with easy money during the boom years, helping to push the rate at which U.K. house prices rose over the past decade far higher than economic drivers like income growth and low interest rates could justify. Now banks are throttling back. They have slashed the range of available mortgages and cut the amount they'll lend relative to the value of a property; no more can U.K. customers borrow more than a home is worth, as many had done...
...town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Obama declared, “John McCain wants to continue a war in Iraq perhaps as long as 100 years,” which the non-partisan watchdog, Factcheck.org, says is a “rank falsehood.” Taking a cheap shot at his opponent’s age, the Illinois Democrat recently accused McCain of “losing his bearings.” And it’s only...
...work at Morgan Stanley. She shows up at six every morning, never telling her coworkers that she continues to wear hemp underwear and vote Democrat. Maya retires at age 52 to found her long-envisioned development NGO / feminist book club, but only after 30 years of exploiting cheap foreign labor and throwing toxic waste into rivers just...
...Despite all of the babble about the supposed "junk" exported by China, I don't think too many Americans are sifting through the shelves at their local Wal-Mart and tossing aside products labeled "Made in China." The fact is that Chinese-made clothes, shoes, toys and appliances are cheap and for the most part of good enough quality for Americans to choose to buy them...