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...sometime last year, the mechanism broke down. Investors backed away from all types of consumer credit after getting burned in the mortgage market. Less than $200 billion in asset-backed loans was securitized in 2008, down from an annual rate of a trillion dollars at the height of the credit boom. This year there has been only a few billion dollars in securitized-debt deals. (See the worst business deals...
...year, or $1.5 million on $100 million, which lowers the investor's take-home return to $2 million. But remember, the investor had to put up just $8 million. That means the annual return on the much smaller up-front investment zooms to a fat 25%. Lower-rated auto loans can pay as much as 30%, but they have a much higher rate of default - and potential buyers will not get access to those low-cost government loans. Plus, these days, few investors are willing to take more risk than they have to. With no one to sell the lower...
America's car companies are still operating on the premise that the new car market will recover in a year or two. It may not rebound from its current annual run-rate of 10 million light vehicles to more than 16 million where it was three years ago, but surely it will get back to 14 million to 15 million...
...approved by an executive board, will not be made until later in the spring. Hillel student leader Michael B. Pershan ’10 said that Ganong’s email was the result of a misunderstanding. Pershan said he believed Hillel is financially stable. “The rate of programming is exactly the same; we’re going to have rabbis next year,” he said. “Nothing really has changed.” “We’re not in a financial crisis,” Gillette said...
...Shin Kanemaru, who served as Deputy Prime Minister and LDP vice president. Both were legendary political fixers, as was Ozawa before he left the party; both were eventually mired in corruption scandals. When Japan was riding high in the 1980s, commentators liked to say that it had a "first-rate economy and third-rate politics." Like it or not, for much of his career Ozawa was deeply embedded in the very political system that was the subject of such disdain. It is hardly surprising that at the first whiff of scandal, his popularity should decline...