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...loss of $99 billion implies that they will need to shrink their balance sheets by 10 times that figure - almost a trillion dollars - to maintain a constant ratio between their assets and capital. That suggests a drastic reduction of credit, since a bank's assets are its loans. Fewer loans mean tighter business conditions on Main Street. Your local car dealer won't be able to get the credit he needs to maintain his inventory of automobiles. To survive, he'll have to lay off some of his employees. Expect higher unemployment nationwide...
...expensive. The price tag for developing a single medication can now top $1 billion, compared with less than $300 million 15 years ago. That rise is due, in large part, to a growing need to produce bigger and bolder breakthroughs as portfolios mature and patents lapse. The market wants fewer "me too" products, instead demanding originality. And drugmakers are working overtime to distinguish themselves: in 2006 the top seven pharmaceutical companies spent twice as much on marketing...
...School of Public Health professor Katherine Swartz. Swartz and her three co-writers concluded that, within five years, this number could in fact increase. “Moving toward a relatively unregulated non-group market will tend to raise costs, reduce the generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumer protections,” the study found. The group focused on McCain’s proposals to introduce a tax on insurance premiums paid by employers, to institute an individual refundable tax credit, and to move toward allowing intra-state policy purchases. The authors wrote that they felt Obama?...
...about those credit card offers. You may not feel it, but there are fewer of them going out - 1.1 million during the second quarter, down 17% from the same time last year, according to Synovate, a research firm that tracks direct mail. Who's being ignored? Well, subprime borrowers (no surprise there), but also anyone who doesn't make a lot of money: 52% of households with an annual income of less than $50,000 received at least one offer in the second quarter, compared with 66% of such households during the same period last year...
...political spouses in recent memory, and even fewer First Ladies, have seemed this familiar. Take, for example, Laura Bush. I'm a fan of our current First Lady, in large part because she comes across as a truly kind, decent person. Her combination of obvious intellectual curiosity, compassion and total discretion intrigues me - so much so that I decided that the next best thing to knowing what someone like her thinks and feels would be imagining it. But if Laura inspires my affection and sympathy, I don't exactly relate to her, or I relate only to certain elements...