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...rate on credit-card defaults could skyrocket to 10% in 2009 - double the average of 5% over the past 10 years - reaching $18.6 billion in the first quarter and $96 billion by the end of next year, predicts an October report from Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, an investment-research firm. "A 10% [charge-off] rate would be unprecedented," says Laura Nishikawa, an Innovest analyst. (Read "Fannie and Freddie Offer New Plan to Help Homeowners...
Armed with this information and a few reasonable if not entirely uncontroversial assumptions about how the economy works, Zandi's firm has estimated the one-year impact on GDP of several stimulus proposals per dollar of spending or lost revenue; for example, a tax rebate like this summer's would generate $1.22 on the dollar. Extending unemployment benefits would bring in $1.63; infrastructure spending, $1.59; and a temporary increase in food-stamp benefits, $1.73. Making the Bush income tax cuts permanent would bring in just 31˘ on the dollar. So spending increases would seem to be in order. Bush...
...Some of the ideas you see tonight may be captivating, some may be controversial, and that’s okay,” said Steven G. Cecil, a principal architect at the Cecil Group, an urban planning firm that is advising the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...handling our diplomatic relationship with Russia. The U.S. has much to gain from favorable relations with Russia, and the new administration should try to avoid heavy-handed tactics like the proposed missile shield. Russia’s threats to attack Poland make it clear that the U.S. must stand firm in its commitment to defend NATO members in Eastern Europe. However, refraining from installing missiles in its backyard will keep Eastern Europe safer in the long run than a face-off with Russia will. While defending itself and its allies against “rogue states” like Iran...
...Patel) from the slums of Mumbai who’s on the verge of winning India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” when he is arrested under suspicion of cheating. An uneducated orphan working at a telemarketing firm couldn’t possibly get so far on the show, right?As Jamal is brutally interrogated by police officers, flashbacks reveal how he managed to learn the answer to each question on the show, delivering the beautiful, exhilarating story of his life. After Jamal and his brother, Salim (Madhur Mittal...