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Instead, consider TIPS, or inflation-protected Treasury bonds. Uncle Sam isn't going to default on his debt (or, if he does, the world economy will be such a mess that nothing else will be worth investing in either). And TIPS guarantee you can't lose money after inflation. They're no longer cheap but still yield up to 3.1 percentage points over the current inflation rate. Put them in your IRA or other retirement account, where their quirky tax features won't "drive you stark raving mad," as Loomis Sayles Bond Fund manager Daniel Fuss puts...
...developing countries each year. The campaign will push for increased transparency on royalty payments. The Rating Game Goldman Sachs became the first major bank to contest the downgrades of Japan's credit rating by Moody's, Fitch and Standard & Poor's. Goldman Sachs said Japan is not a default risk and deserves an Aaa rating instead of A2, which places it below Botswana. BOTTOM LINES "A hedgehog could have crossed any major road in relative safety." Rob Maynard, Royal Automobile Club spokesman, on the absence of a rush hour during England's early-morning Nigeria match "The problem I have...
Before you start installing anything, make sure you have the following information handy: your broadband connection's IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS IP addresses. You can get these things from your Internet provider; your customer-service rep will know what you're talking about. Each is just a series of numbers (e.g., 123.43.2.1) that you'll be prompted to plug in during setup. (If your provider supports a protocol called DHCP, your router should retrieve these settings automatically when you plug it in.) You may also be asked to choose an SSID (service set identifier), work-group...
Manufacturers aren't the only businesses that can profit from forecasting software. Internet companies use it to predict when their sites will get the most hits so their servers don't crash. Credit-card companies calculate who is likely to default. And looking at such factors as employees' ages, salaries, number of years on the job, how often they have changed jobs in the past and opportunities in their fields, human-resources departments predict which employees are most likely to quit...
...Kirby is the default candidate, Faust is most out of the box. She is also the least likely of the three to accept the position...