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...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...
Still others, in a sign of the depth of distrust for developers of such suburban projects, suggested the fires were deliberately set in an effort to get some financial return, via an insurance payment, on the homes - none of which had sold since their opening last summer. Gutt, the FBI special agent, said authorities were not ruling out any possible motives, noting that the banner and other unspecified evidence recovered at the crime scene had been sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. "I don't know where the facts will take the case," he said...
While many blame government policies for the shortages, a recent incident speaks to the flip side - a distrust of business that has been fueled by Chavez's fiery rhetoric. Early on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 24, a bomb exploded just outside the entrance to the headquarters of Fedecamaras, a leading business chamber that is critical of the government's economic policies. A 44-year-old man, suspected of planting the bomb and in possession of an honorary Metropolitan Police identification card, was killed in the blast. Fedecamaras called on the government to find those responsible, while Interior and Justice...