Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news is grim. "Our call volumes are up 100%. We are just on fire here," says Gary Bhojwani, CEO of Allianz Life Insurance in Minneapolis, which sells annuities--insurance products that trade off risk and the potentially higher returns that stocks or bonds offer in exchange for a guaranteed payback. (Most annuities are guaranteed by state insurance regulators.) Investors who wouldn't know an annuity from a pineapple are asking one question: Is my money safe...
...Roots of the Problem How did this happen, and why over the past 14 months have we suddenly seen so much to fear? Think of it as payback. Fear is so pervasive today because for years the financial markets - and many borrowers - showed no fear at all. Wall Streeters didn't have to worry about regulation, which was in disrepute, and they didn't worry about risk, which had supposedly been magically whisked away by all sorts of spiffy nouveau products - derivatives like credit-default swaps. (More on those later.) This lack of fear became a hothouse of greed...
...feel about your brother Stephen's conversion to Evangelical Christianity? -Nicolas Christy, Austin, TexasIf it wasn't political, I probably wouldn't have anything to say. But the Evangelicals who say AIDS is payback for homosexuals-you don't see liberals saying Hurricane Ike is payback for the Bush family living in Texas. I think that my brother really is very devout and very dedicated, and none of that bothers me until it becomes political...
Then I realized that this extraordinary thing that was happening to me, this improbable tale, would surely be balanced out - and soon - by some awful karmic payback. I pictured myself stuck on a runway in a commuter turboprop for a couple of hours, with the A/C malfunctioning, next to a fat guy with body odor...
...rare female copywriter at Sterling Cooper, but at the cost of having given away her out-of-wedlock baby. The daddy, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser)--a weaselly rich boy who tried to blackmail Don into promoting him after learning the truth about his past--is suffering the apparent karmic payback of being unable to conceive with his wife...