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...have been entrusted with a very precious resource,” Faust said. “It has preceded us, and it’s our obligation to shape how it’s going to outlive...
...Unfortunately, there is precious little data on what sorts of changes to mortgages do have the best shot of keeping borrowers in their homes in the long run. The most quoted research on the topic, from the investment bank Credit Suisse, shows - unsurprisingly - that when modifications involve lower monthly payments, borrowers have much more of a fighting chance. One report, looking at modifications made to a pool of sub-prime loans, found that 44% of loans with increased monthly payments were more than 60 days delinquent within eight months. After that same period, only 15% of loans that had received...
...areas of research such as condensed matter and quantum physics, certain phenomena can only be realized and controlled at low temperatures, making liquid helium—one of the simplest means of cooling a specimen—a precious commodity...
...many of their counterparts in the U.S. and Western Europe. Yet the drop in energy and commodity prices since the summer is exposing Russia's fragility: gas and metals account for more than three-quarters of export earnings. The boom, it turns out, was built on expensive oil and precious little else. Economic growth, which averaged more than 7% for the past five years, has tumbled, and the government now expects the economy to contract 0.2% this year. And for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the threat of large-scale unemployment looms. "Money...
...time when the White House faith-based-initiatives office created by George W. Bush has precious few supporters on the left or right, President Barack Obama is following through with his campaign pledge to expand its scope and influence within his Administration. Obama made that clear Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, announcing a new Presidential Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that will weigh in on matters ranging from funding of social-service providers and poverty alleviation to the more controversial issue of abortion reduction. "The goal of this office will not be to favor...