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...cheaply and attract investment in the safest currency on the globe. That helped finance the budget deficit, kept interest rates low and also allowed Americans, as individuals and collectively through their government, to spend way beyond their means. Foreigners are big buyers of mortgage securities, which make purchasing that McMansion more affordable. They hold nearly $2 trillion of Treasury securities, keeping government costs low enough to allow the President to consider his new initiatives. But foreigners may be reaching their saturation point when it comes to funding the U.S.'s profligate lifestyle. The nation sucks up 80% of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wither The Dollar | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Crimson editors—those lushes!—soundly defeated Undergraduate Council members, 42-11, in the first-annual Zachary A Corker ’04 Memorial Beirut tournament, held last Saturday at the paper’s 14 Plympton St. McMansion...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly: The Week in Buzz | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

...father, an artist with a keen aesthetic sense, was adamant that his dream home purchase be no multi-gabled McMansion. In fact, anything built within the last century would not suffice, and I’ve always lived in good-natured old houses, full of the creaks, drafty windows and unexpected quirks. Beyond my father’s fussy desire for a house with lovely antique details, my mother insisted on a rural setting with plenty of property (good fences make good neighbors, etc.). And so the last few years have been filled with frequent trips to western Massachusetts, Vermont...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Dog House | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

Clarence Thomas--yes, that Clarence Thomas--loves to hit the road in what he calls his "condo on wheels." Shaquille O'Neal bought his own mobile McMansion last summer, a 37-ft. Fleetwood Discovery, and he didn't even need to supersize it. And in January, after finishing his second term as Governor of Maine, Angus King set out with his family on a five-month cross-country odyssey in his big Newmar Dutch Star, which in place of a rearview mirror has a dashboard video screen hooked up to an aft-mounted camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure Industry: Not Your Dad's RV | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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