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...being compared to what many economists believe began in the US two years ago. They fear, probably with good reason, that GDP growth will simply stay in a narrow band of extremely modest growth or no growth at all and the lack of consumer and business spending and demand for exports will cause deflation...
With the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the uncertain future of AIG, BVG fears that the U.S. investors could demand as much as $200 million in additional collateral. As a precaution, the transit company has taken a risk provision of €157 million ($208 million) on its balance sheet. BVG says that when the deal was done, J.P. Morgan assured that it would not be liable unless the majority of its CDO backers became insolvent. "But they misled us," says Reetz. "It now appears that we could be made liable even if just one of the backers becomes insolvent...
...system for saving housing is so perfectly built that it cannot not possibly fail. It has powerful dynamics to create demand which will meet a supply of homes available at prices which must be in the process of bottoming. The reasoning here becomes circular. Housing prices are finding a floor because of the government's help to create demand. The actual issue of whether people will buy homes is left out of the equation...
...According to the SportsOneSource, a research firm that tracks the sporting-goods industry, firearms sales in large retail outlets are up 39% this year. Shops across the country are reporting ammunition shortages because stores can't meet demand for bullets. Data from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which the industry uses as a proxy for overall firearms sales, are also revealing. From November 2008 through March 2009, FBI background checks, which are required every time a federally licensed gun dealer makes a sale, rose 29.3% over the same period a year earlier. In November alone, checks...
...power reached its zenith when his security forces eventually staged a dramatic rescue of the embassy hostages in 1997. That same year, he insisted to TIME that his counterinsurgency operations had not violated human rights. "Draconian measures were needed here, and I wouldn't agree that Peruvians now demand more flexibility from the judicial system in our fight," he said. "Democratic rules and human rights haven't been set aside in the emergency, though some mistakes were made." (Read "The Trials of Alberto Fujimori...