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...then at the end of the poem, [Shakespeare] said, ‘I know one day you will recognize me,’” Jawad said. “One day, this country will rise up again...
...contradictory. When the government has a wrong outlook on the economy, when it has a political take on the economy, I think these problems come about. We need more reason and farsightedness on the economy, not just looking at our own tenure but beyond that. Otherwise I think the rise in oil prices was a golden opportunity that the government not only didn't take advantage of, but even turned it into a threat to domestic production because of the high volume of imports that the government pursued with the oil money...
...Bear Stearns careened toward its eventual fire sale to JPMorgan Chase last weekend, the cost of protecting its debt, through an instrument called a credit default swap, began to rise rapidly as investors feared that Bear would not be good for the money it promised on its bonds. Not familiar with credit default swaps? Well, we didn't know much about collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) either - until they began to undermine the economy. Credit default swaps, once an obscure financial instrument for banks and bondholders, could soon become the eye of the credit hurricane...
...magic wand," says 28-year-old Maria de Lujan Telpuk of the incident that changed her life. Not that it turned the former kindergarten teacher into the sort of princess that appeared in the fairy tales she might once have read to her class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story of how she became...
...United States and those in the European Union. "Most OPEC members are working close to flat-out," he says. "There is little spare capacity outside of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and some of that is relatively poor quality crude." And right now, global demand continues to rise...