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Clearly, there was some illegal colluding going on between the players, which they defended as ‘gotcha back-ing’. For the next few turns, these two players began giving each other low-interest loans whenever the other was short on cash, helping each other build up houses and hotels, while giving each other safe havens...

Author: By James L. Wu | Title: The Meaning Behind Monopoly | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...research center. In other words, each individual cooperative gains long-term benefits from the financial assets of the whole. (How this would play out in the context of U.S. tax rules remains to be seen.) In Cleveland, the Evergreen Cooperative Development Fund, managed by ShoreBank Enterprise Cleveland, provides low-interest, long-term financing. In the future, a financial institution more aligned with Caja Laboral, which also handles consumer saving and lending, might be developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cleveland, Worker Co-Ops Look to a Spanish Model | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Lately, the People’s Republic has been in the bad habit of making ever larger investments with questionable African regimes. A week before Obama’s tour, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao promised to lend Africa $10 billion in low-interest development loans over the next three years and to forgive many older interest-free loans made to less developed nations...

Author: By Karthik R. Kasaraneni | Title: Scrambling in Africa | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Citing a desire to bolster development, China pledged $10 billion in low-interest loans and other economic benefits to African nations. In Sharm el-Sheikh to announce the plan on Nov. 8, Premier Wen Jiabao dismissed suggestions that the initiative is merely an attempt to broaden China's business interests on the continent. The package--coming on the heels of a $5 billion pledge in 2006--includes clean-energy projects, debt cancellations and tariff exemptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...company plans to deliver its first Karma roadster early next year. It is getting $528 million in low-interest, government-guaranteed loans to refine its plug-in hybrid-drive system, originally developed by its partner Quantum Technology of Irvine, Calif., with grants from the U.S. Department of Defense. Using that technology, the Karma can travel for 50 miles on lithium-ion batteries before the gasoline engine turns on to act as a generator, Fisker says. The preliminary price tag for the Karma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Bets a Billion on New High-Tech Automakers | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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