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...best because it allows you to invest the money until the payments are due. The decision isn't as clear cut if you need to stretch out the payments over four or five years. On a 48-month loan, you can generally figure that each percentage point you lop off the interest rate will save you $20.50 for every $1,000 that you borrow. You can head to cars.com on the Web, where an incentives-comparison calculator will allow you to see a side-by-side snapshot...
...Idioteque,” one of the most outstanding tracks from the new albums, is even more edgy and deranged on Wrong, the live drums providing the driving, lop-sided drum machine sample with even greater insistency. Being able to not only reproduce but improve on such an awkward song is impressive in itself. Yorke maintains the frantic energy unaccompanied except for drums for much of the song before surrendering to the chorus of industrial-style whooshes and tinkles that are fast becoming Radiohead’s stock-in-trade. Both “I Might Be Wrong?...
...believe that the Saudi financier is necessarily pulling the strings when they act. What Bin Laden may in fact personify is the coming together of diverse Islamist groups during the Afghan war, and their identification of the U.S. as their primary enemy during the decade that followed. So lop off the head, and the body continues to function, because it remains a diverse and diffuse set of groups and cells with their own internal structures, driven by a common sense of implacable grievance. That menace will remain, even if Bin Laden is removed. We may simply have to find...
...bunch of big names--Cisco, Oracle, Nokia, Verizon, Intel--are in the zone, even based on this year's depressed earnings. The risk in looking at things this way is that the earnings picture can sour further, and even long-term growth rates erode. So some money managers lop 10% off consensus earnings estimates and 20% off the generally accepted growth rates...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is in Vienna again, putting their heads together over production cuts that could lop anywhere from 500,000 to 1,500,000 barrels of crude oil off their 25 million-per-day output. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl explains what OPEC is after - and how the wrong move could put the global economy on a slippery slope...