Word: feds
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...fed bellied up to the bar last week and ordered a double. Greenspan & Co.'s decision to drop short-term interest rates by half a percentage point surprised Wall Street--which had expected a quarter-point cut--and brought rates to their lowest level in 41 years. That might help spur the economy by making it cheaper for businesses to borrow, but there's a downside. With inflation running at 1.8%, your bank savings or money-market fund yielding barely 1% is becoming a money loser. If you want safety with reasonable income, you'll have to get more creative...
...Fortunately for savers, the situation is unlikely to get much worse, as the Fed has signaled that it is done dropping rates for now. For borrowers, things won't get much better for the same reason--there will be no Christmas rate...
...replace the $100 million in hard money," says McAuliffe, "we're dead." One potential hurdle is the fury of Hollywood donors. Heavy hitters like Hollywood producer Steve Bing (who gave $5 million to Democrats over the past two years) told party fund raisers they were so fed up with what they perceived as the Democrats' appeasement of Bush that they won't continue to fund many candidates...
...convicted of murdering two of the five children they had abducted, tortured and sexually abused before burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester. Hindley had made a number of legal bids for freedom but a succession of Home Secretaries had ruled against her release. Brady has been force-fed while on hunger strike since 1999 and continues to fight for the right...
...surprisingly, policy planners have a spotty track record when it comes to matching supply with demand. In the 1990s, strict government controls fed a speculative price bubble that made Hong Kong one of the world's most expensive real estate markets. When the bubble burst in 1997 during Asia's financial crisis, a deflationary spiral ensued, knocking prices down by some 60% and destroying much of the wealth of property owners and commercial developers...