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...gloomiest predictions - that the sand dunes will reclaim the skyscrapers - are overdone. Abu Dhabi has kept Dubai afloat by snapping up $10 billion of a $20 billion Dubai bond issue. Among other things, the bailout money has helped shore up the state-owned development companies behind most of those massive building projects. Still, the shakeout is probably not over yet, according to Saud Masoud, an analyst at the Dubai office of investment bank UBS. Masoud predicts house prices could eventually fall as much as 70% from last year's highs. "You can't just put in more capital," he says...
...fastest clip in decades. But if you stick to your steady, diversified plan while everyone else is retreating, you will be happy years from now. For one thing, Fed rate cuts always lift the economy eventually, and the stock market typically starts responding just as headlines get gloomiest. Sure, the market could fall again before recovering. But the recession may be half over already--or we may avoid one altogether. You just never know...
...dark, darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country. Something unthinkable has happened. Something inconceivable, unthinkable has happened." Pakistan Opposition Leader NAWAZ SHARIF...
...about as ready as it's possible to be for a virus that could be up to 25 times more deadly than a standard flu (thus killing 2.5% of those it infects), to which no one is yet immune, and for which there's no effective treatment. The gloomiest scenario for Australia, Abbott says, is an outbreak "that would bring life as we know it to a standstill for about six months." Societies like Australia's, he adds, "are not used to contemplating death on this scale...
...about to retire, he meets Natalie (Maria Bello), a waitress drawn in by his pitiable existence. The encounter quickly progresses and soon Natalie is firmly clutching a nude Bernie’s genitalia in one of the year’s more unsettling images. The ensuing relationship transforms the gloomiest cooler in town into an exuberant lucky charm. Imbuing the endearingly wretched Macy with supernatural powers is a welcome violation of character expectations, but falls apart in the context of a film that doubles down on every available Vegas movie cliché, from the brutal, solitary casino owner...