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...Consider the teaser rate. More than a third of consumers pick one credit card over another based on which issuer has the lowest introductory interest rate. And yet people often do so in a way that leaves them with higher finance charges over time. In one study, University of Maryland economists Haiyan Shui and Lawrence Ausubel watched people pick a card with a teaser rate of 4.9% for six months over a card with a teaser rate of 7.9% for 12 months. That would make sense if the people then paid off their balances within six months. But many didn...
...rebound? Its owner, the London Stock Exchange (LSE), is currently lobbying the government against rules that forbid Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) from investing in AIM firms above a certain size. The limits have virtually wiped out funding from that source. The Exchange also wants VCTs to be able to pick up shares in the secondary market - something they're currently prevented from doing - not solely through new listings. The LSE also recently launched a service providing research on AIM companies which lack the kind of independent analysis wavering investors are after. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Several Holocaust survivors present said it was not their place to pick apart the Pope's remarks, but there was not the resounding gratitude that John Paul II received upon his visit in 2000. "It was OK. I'm satisfied," said Ed Mosberg, a Krakow native and New Jersey resident whose parents and two sisters were killed by the Nazis. "It's important that he came...
...interview for Politico, gay-rights advocate Dixon Osburn stated, “I don’t think [Obama] would shy away from [selecting a gay or lesbian nominee], but first and foremost he’s going to pick someone he thinks has constitutional gravitas...
...question about whether he downloaded pornography; Tenenbaum, in a fit of philosophical whimsy, informing the plaintiffs that he was sure of something only “to the extent that anyone can know anything about what they did while they were conscious”; Burton, requesting that Joel pick files he did not download from a 40-page printout of his share folder and receiving a listing of several off-color adult-film selections in response. Lawyerly disdain, often smothered by the formalism and conventions of the profession, went barely veiled...