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...Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appears intent on avoiding such mistakes. He pledged during recent congressional testimony to "act in a timely manner as needed to support growth and provide adequate insurance against downside risks." And Fed actions speak louder than words: the 1.25 percentage point reduction in the overnight policy rate at the end of January was the most rapid cut by the U.S. central bank in recent history...
...Fed is also taking other steps. It recently expanded on a program introduced late last year to inject billions of dollars of liquidity into the banking system. The reason is the continued rise of key interest rates - including all-important mortgage rates - due to financial market distress. We are therefore poised not only to see further policy-rate cuts, but also continued nontraditional central-bank actions to get credit markets working again, including possible outright purchases of U.S. mortgage-backed securities...
...where it’s just Obama and Hilary on the Democratic side, then I’m still a candidate. So maybe now that we’ve got a lot of these people out of the way, they’ll have to come. People are getting fed up with the same old Hilary and Obama stuff. People are getting tired of that. So the media is going to want to make things a little interesting. They may reach down and say well what’s this Gravel all about? Because they can’t make...
...city's planning department has, over the past five years, steadily fed Google a wealth of information about its buildings, property lines, utilities and streets. The result is earth.nanaimo.ca, a clearinghouse of city data viewed through the robust and freely available Google Earth 3D mapping program. The site sorts and maps every business, from restaurants to car dealers, while a click of the mouse brings up the lot size for every property in the city, including the building permit number and zoning history. Homeowners can use the facility to find out specific information about their garbage collection schedule, while...
Despite my natural mistrust of any documentary where the heroes and villains are so clearly defined, I couldn’t deny the appeal of “The Unforeseen.” The documentary recounts the debate over Barton Springs, a spring-fed swimming hole in Austin, Tex. As lobbyists and environmentalists argue in and out of court over plans to build housing developments—a plan that would pollute the natural treasure—what was once a local issue becomes a deeper question of private property rights and the good of the community.In the 1970s, Austin...