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...Here's where things start to get interesting: A lower price translates into a high potential return for an investor. When the loans were made, an investor who bought them at "par," or the dollar value of the loan, could expect a return of around 7%. That's a more than acceptable rate of return if you believe you will get paid back. But now that defaults are rising on home loans, investors are demanding higher returns to compensate them for the risk that a mortgage will end up delinquent or in foreclosure. A price of $0.26 implies that investor...
...loans should be willing to pay more than someone who has to buy that same asset with just their own cash. Based on TIME.com's analysis, an investor, using the 6-to-1 leverage the government is providing, can pay as much as $0.70 per dollar lent, and still expect to get the same return as an unlevered investor...
...nerdy, studious guys, the research suggests they can't expect to be fruitful unless they become more like the bullies who tormented them as boys. That's because, as past studies have shown, the higher your intelligence, the less sex you tend to have - and, therefore, the fewer kids you will have. The last 20 years have been a golden era for dorks as video games and graphic novels and software engineering have become respectable, even mainstream. But in the end, the brutish football players who tormented them in high school will likely win in the merciless world of genetic...
...men’s swimming and diving season finally comes to a close, the team knows it will sorely miss the leadership and athletic prowess Jones has provided for the past four years. However, the Crimson faithful also know where to look for future success—they can expect big things from Meyer in 2009-10. —ALEXANDRA J. MIHALEK
...Pepsi. One important issue oft overlooked during an airline merger: Coke or Pepsi? Delta serves Coke, but Northwest is Pepsi all the way. That divide will survive the merger, even after Northwest employees have doffed their uniforms for Delta's. Concerned travelers can learn which beverage selection to expect by looking at their tickets, which still display either the Northwest or Delta logo...