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...could someone else offer a higher rate? Chances are, the bidder wasn't looking to make a profit - just trying to inject liquidity into the institution's balance sheet - or was pursuing riskier investments in order to make the transaction make sense. "When a bank chases yield, they then start making riskier investments or riskier loans," says Fine of the Independent Community Bankers of America. That's not something we particularly need more of right...
...same as Disco, this new wave should not be considered a Disco revival. Rather, it is a new willingness to embrace duality and nuance. Just because a song is coquettish or vampy, doesn’t preclude it from coming from a serious or earnest place. Songs can offer a meaningful perspective on getting older (LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”) and still have a backbeat. Artists need not be self-consciously serious to be serious. DFA artist Hercules and Love Affair, one of the forerunners of this new set of innovators...
...Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements released 28 new reports last Sunday that will “offer a blueprint and information” to countries debating a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that has been widely panned as ineffective...
Stavins and his co-author, Joseph E. Aldy of Resources for the Future, an environmental resource-management group, said that their aim is only to offer information to the delegations convening in Poland...
...While Ludacris’s claims to supremacy and boasts of sexual prowess on tracks like “Undisputed” or “What Them Girls Like” have been claimed by many others (including some of his collaborators on this album), the later tracks offer a more in-depth glance into the artist’s thought process. In “I Do It for Hip Hop,” Luda sheds some light on the motivation behind his career: “Luda do it cause it?...