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...Asia, places where your average food supplier or bank may know little, if anything, about halal. In Europe - the biggest growth region according to the Halal Journal - young devout Muslims are hungry for Islamic versions of mainstream pleasures such as fast food. "The second- and third-generation Muslims are fed up with having rice and lentils every day," observes Darhim Hashim, CEO of the Malaysia-based International Halal Integrity Alliance. "They're saying, 'We want pizzas, we want Big Macs.' " Domino's now sources halal pepperoni from a Malaysian company for the pizzas it sells from Kuala Lumpur to Birmingham...
There is a small market in credit default swaps for U.S. debt. The fact that there is one at all should be troubling to the Treasury and the Fed. While the chances of American defaulting on any portion of its debt are small, if the recession drags on the odds that the government will have trouble raising money to finance the deficit will rise. To keep its credit rating, the American government will be faced with curtailing many of its stimulus programs or sharply raising the tax burden. Either action could slow any recovery making a burgeoning deficit a "Catch...
...however, no place for people to go to see the entire "portfolio" of US government investments with expectations of what they will yield and when. It is easy to say that predictions for individual companies across such a broad spectrum of industries are impossible. When the Treasury or Fed put capital into individual companies or into the purchase of securities in the open market, they use internal models for what they expect in returns. That is the only way for the government to measure whether pieces of the stimulus package are working. In every case when there is a specific...
...matter of time before banks started to rise. Also, many investors have been so focused on the short term - all the recent steps taken by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury - that they have forgotten that the bank assist started in August of 2007 when the Fed cut the discount rate and opened the lending window to a wider list of financial companies. So this has been going on for a little less than two years. Typically when you see that type of extended intervention, and such an enormous amount of money being thrown at the problem, it's only...
Glee's creator, Ryan Murphy, specializes in lampooning American appetites. In his dark comedy Popular, he took on the desire for social status; in the plastic-surgery drama Nip/Tuck, the hunger for physical perfection. Glee is all about the timely teen dream embodied and fed by Idol, High School Musical and YouTube: fame, glorious fame...