Word: distrust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Stanley Ann DunhamBorn in 1942, just five years before Hillary Clinton, Obama's mother came into an America constrained by war, segregation and a distrust of difference. Her parents named her Stanley because her father had wanted a boy. She endured the expected teasing over this indignity, but dutifully lugged the name through high school, apologizing for it each time she introduced herself in a new town...
...simple truth is that innovation leads to financial crises. That's because the risks of new financial products are so easily glossed over--until that fateful day when they can't be anymore and markets respond by freezing up with distrust and fear. That's what happened with subprime mortgages and the securities built out of them...
...good times in real estate seemed to lull many buyers of this paper into ignoring risk completely. Ever since investors began discovering to their horror early last year that it is in fact possible to lose money on mortgages, the market for mortgage securities has been gripped by distrust and disagreement. That distrust has since spread to other investments previously advertised as virtually risk-free: insured bonds, auction-rate municipal bonds and the structured investment vehicles (SIVS) that banks used to get ugly stuff off their balance sheets...
...October, the signs of widespread distrust towards Westerners were already present amid the escalating violence...
...unmet expectations of the U.S. presence In the Middle East, ironically, among people who distrust and maybe even dislike America, they also have an incredibly high opinion of what America can do. The same people - I've interviewed these kinds of people over and over again - the same people who say "Death to America! Death to George Bush!" - want to know why within three weeks, why the electricity wasn't completely restored to Baghdad because after all it was America. If America couldn't fix everybody's problems in the first 5 months...