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...January 2006 as the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve. At a Washington dinner a few months later, Bernanke responded to a question from CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, who asked whether the media and financial markets were right to think that he had signaled the Fed was done raising interest rates. "He said, flatly, no," she reported on her program at about 3:15 p.m. the following Monday, causing stock prices to drop sharply before the market closed. He called that move a mistake and vowed not to stray from "regular and formal channels" of communication...
Need some stimulating new reading material for your bathroom? Has your interest in that stale copy of Diamond Magazine gone a little limp? Well, you're in luck. H BOMB IS BACK!!!! Details after the jump...
...Later. If you have an American Airlines-branded credit card, you can use it to purchase a ticket on AA.com and defer payment for six months, with no interest...
...studies reify gender stereotypes: women get their hearts broken through sadness; men "break" their hearts (via heart attack) through anger. But both studies suggest that men and women have a common interest in understanding that some causes of cardiac disease - poor diet or lack of exercise or bad sleep habits - may have a precipitating cause themselves. Whether male or female, letting yourself get overwhelmed by emotion can damage not only your mind but also that crucial organ, the heart...
...TALF program offers cheap loans to investors who want to buy bonds backed by consumer loans. Even better, some of the TALF loans won't have to be paid back. If the bonds pay as expected, investors will have to repay the government loans with interest. But if the bonds go bust, investors are off the hook, after losing the small down payment they made on the original loan. To limit taxpayer losses, the government is going to make loans only against bonds rated AAA, the highest rank...