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...purchases aren't always the best purchases: "Despite your initial excitement and a high price tag, adaptation guarantees that your focus will soon stray from the wondrous pleasures of your new computer or larger apartment, consigning them to mere comfort status. Rather than binging on such big, costly amenities, a better - and cheaper - strategy for boosting your daily satisfaction quotient would be to add many more simple, inexpensive ones ... After all, on any given Monday morning, your comfortable bank balance pales beside a good cup of coffee...
...considered to be in reasonable shape a year ago so Google's results in the period were based on a relatively robust business environment. Even with a collapse in the overall economy Google's results barely changed. The DJIA was 60% higher than it is now. Google's share price was only 15% higher. The market's perception of Google's prospects has changed very little in a year...
...tattoo a gall bladder and you don't know if it's legal or not. It's the same with caviar. You have legal caviar, illegal caviar, illegal caviar being passed off as legal to escape detection, and legal caviar passed off as illegal to get a higher price. How do you tell what is what? It's very complex...
...that point, pressure mounted from regulators, the Federal Reserve and Congress on the Financial Accounting Standards Board to loosen accounting rules so that the toxic assets' book value could be marked up to buttress the banks' balance sheets - conveniently raising the assets' potential sales price at the same time. And in late March, days before the meeting with the bank CEOs, Geithner and Obama unveiled the government subsidies for buyers, drawing big names like Blackstone and Pimco into the market to purchase the assets from the banks and resell them...
...recent report from Goldman Sachs, the firm's research analysts calculated that the best of the banking industry's toxic assets are carried on banks' books at an average of $91 (on a bond with an original $100 price). But TIME's calculations suggest that the government-subsidized buyers would pay only $70, leaving the banks with a $21 loss on each bond sold...