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...faced in more than 75 years. Kashkari must quickly figure out how to spend the first chunk of the $700 billion to maximum effect. He's looking at devices like a reverse auction, where holders of bad loans will compete to sell them to Treasury at the lowest cost to taxpayers. And he has to figure out how to extract from sellers not just complex debt vehicles like mortgage-backed securities but also plain old faltering home loans with local banks, without vacuuming up every loan in the country. If these approaches don't work, Kashkari and the rest...
...harangue and homework. Not many more people came when producers tried crossbreeding hot-spot intrigue with familiar genres. The Kingdom, a Jamie Foxx action picture set in Saudi Arabia, and Charlie Wilson's War, with Tom Hanks in an upbeat comedy about Afghanistan, earned the stars some of their lowest box-office numbers in years. Americans, urged by their President to defeat the terrorists by going shopping, apparently didn't put tickets to war-on-terrorism movies on their must-buy list...
...change of heart? Basic economics. Fewer than 1 million cars were sold in the U.S. last month - the lowest monthly figure in 15 years - as car loans and job prospects dried up for many Americans. And in Europe, where nearly half of car purchases are financed, auto executives have told reporters that they are bracing for tough times ahead. (Click here to see the most important cars of all time...
...China, where construction of commercial and residential projects has been especially rampant, may be facing "an imminent bust of a real estate bubble," Merrill Lynch warned in a September report. A recent survey of households by China's central bank found only 13% were planning to buy property, the lowest figure since the survey started in 1999. In the wealthy industrial city of Shenzhen, reports suggest property prices may have fallen 30% from recent highs...
...according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, which spanned 2005 to 2007 and covered some 15,000 homes, said about a quarter provided a "substandard quality of care." In Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington, D.C., 100% of homes had deficiencies. The lowest rate was in Rhode Island...