Word: macs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Predictions: You’ll start going to the MAC in hopes of getting rid of the 10 pounds you’ve gained since September. As you put on your boots and winter coat to walk across the Yard to breakfast, you will regret not going to Stanford...
...bargained for: on July 20, his office released a report estimating the $700 billion effort to shore up the nation's wobbly banking system could end up costing taxpayers as much as $23.7 trillion, due to estimates for programs offered by the FDIC, federal money for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other institutions on top of $7.4 trillion in TARP and other Treasury aid. A spokesperson for the Treasury Department quickly called the numbers flawed, making this the latest in the back and forth between Barofsky's oversight office - which currently has 35 ongoing criminal and civil investigations of suspected...
...mortgage-refinancing happening, and credit-card problems may be bottoming - all good stuff, say Goldman's strategists. But there's another important reason the earnings for S&P financial stocks are looking better: many of the sickies are gone from the index, including Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
...actually serve those delicacies, but a new website offers the next best thing: teaching budget foodies how to take standard drive-thru fare and slice, strip, mix and otherwise recreate it to look gourmet. Fancy Fast Food offers meticulously detailed, elegantly photographed recipes that can transform, say, a Big Mac Extra Value Meal into "McSteak & Potatoes" (the "potatoes" being the hamburger bun and french fries pureed in a food processor.) The large Coke, of course, gets served in a wine glass. (Read "Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with That...
Then there is the financing issue. The federal government has done a lot to try to keep interest rates low - like buying up mortgaged-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - but loans over a certain size are often exempt. The rates on "jumbo" loans (generally those that run about $417,000) have historically been about .25 percentage points higher than on regular mortgages. That spread jumped all the way up to 180 basis points last fall, according to data-tracker HSH Associates - but has since settled down to about 100. Still, that's a big added expense. Plus...