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Consider that the average yield on a one-year CD is 2.39%, the same as it was in mid-August, according to a weekly survey by Bankrate.com, even though the prime rate - the rate at which banks lend to their most creditworthy customers - has fallen from 5% to 4%. That means a bank that used to borrow at about 2.5% and lend at 5% now borrows at 2.5% and lends at 4% - an entire percentage point has been stripped from the bank's ability to make money. More than half of all banks saw their net interest margin - a measure...
Last week, Harvard announced its endowment had fallen 22 percent—$8 billion—in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, a decline that comes amid the worst financial downturn in decades...
...often looks like a crowd has intentionally trampled the victims. But what usually happens is that the people in the rear of a crowd do not know that someone in front has fallen. They still have room to move, unlike the people in front, so they continue to press forward. The compounding pressure can bend steel like it's made of rubber. "It only takes five people to push against one to break a rib, collapse a lung or smash a child's head," says Still. Most stampede victims (including the Wal-Mart worker) die of asphyxiation - they literally cannot...
Since then, the economy has boomed, by 6.7% last year as opposed to 3.7% in 2002, and inflation has fallen from 32.9% to 10.7% in the same period. A consensus has developed on the big questions such as liberal economics, and efforts to alleviate poverty. Regardless of who replaces Kufuor out of the two leading candidates - Nana Akufo-Addo, 62, from Kufuor's ruling New Patriotic Party, and John Atta Mills, 62, of the National Democratic Congress are neck and neck in the race, according to opinion polls - neither is expected to initiate radical change...
...theme is service because what we see is a student body that cares so much about specific issues that we have fallen out of touch,” James said...