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...optimists, the June data showed just how determined the Chinese government is to implement effective monetary countermeasures to fight the downturn. As Peking University finance professor Michael Pettis says, China is "throwing everything including the kitchen sink'' at the problem. There is no question that as a result of the flood of financing, a lot of Chinese have jobs they otherwise wouldn't. But, as Grant's Interest Rate Observer, an influential Wall Street newsletter, points out in its latest issue, "Massive injections of money and credit ... are always bullish before they are bearish." The newsletter draws worrying parallels between...
...dirge has the same tune in Vegas. P. Michael Murphy, Clark County coroner and president of the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners, says he's seen a definite uptick in the number of indigent burials owing to financial hardship in the past several months. "Our investigators are seeing an increase in families who as part of the initial shock they're going through are verbalizing to us, 'What am I going to do? I can't pay the rent. My car is being repossessed,' or whatever. 'Our finances are at the very limit,'" says Murphy. "This problem used...
...private moment with my dad to thank him for sticking with it," his son Michael told reporters outside the hospital after the papers freeing his father were signed. "It was very emotional when the guards left...
...tabloid journalists from Britain's Daily Express broke the news that Biggs was hiding out in Rio de Janeiro. Scotland Yard's subsequent efforts to extradite him were foiled after Biggs fathered a child, Michael, with Raimunda de Castro, a nightclub dancer and alleged prostitute; Brazilian law protected the parents of Brazilian citizens. And while Biggs could not legally work in Brazil, he was able to live freely and profit from coffee mugs and T shirts branded with his name and image. (TIME flashback 1981: "Biggs Bagged...
...Rhode Island - so oceanographers have suspected that their movements may cause significant ocean-mixing. But despite numerous attempts, the phenomenon has not been observed since the 2006 study. "Instead, many people studying mixing have not seen large increases in mixing during times krill or other zooplankton migrate," says Michael Gregg, an oceanographer at the University of Washington. (See pictures of aliens of the deep...