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...Friday, lawmakers on the House Banking Committee will get their second round with the Big Three. And if the hours of grilling in the Senate seemed tough, they are sure to face much more skepticism from the lower chamber of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Pelosi have said that if both committees approve of Detroit's recovery plans, they will call Congress back into session next week to pass a bill. Of all the compromises open to lawmakers, one thing is nearly certain: the bigger and more complicated the plan, the less likely it is to pass...
...buddhist-dominated Thailand, people understand the concept of a long cycle of suffering before salvation. Yet even the faithful must be tiring of the farcical merry-go-round of Thai politics. On Dec. 2, a Thai court dissolved the People Power Party (PPP) because of electoral fraud, ending Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's tenure as the country's third premier in 2008. After more than two years in political crisis, Thailand is back to square...
...lock horns, there are other factors at play that help us stay friendly. One is proximity - or, in our case, the lack thereof. My husband and I live in London, while his mother lives two hours north of the city, so there's no risk of her popping round to check the dust levels on the bookshelf or calling my husband every time her TV is on the fritz. That means we avoid one of the more common complaints that Apter heard from women: that their mothers-in-law demand too much attention from their sons. In What...
...deals were completed in India. Repayment rates remain very high, 97% or 98% in many places. That results from good, old-fashioned credit methodology - you know a household's capacity to repay. That's the kind of old-fashioned banking that some people feel was absent in this latest round of banking disasters. At the same time, we are seeing many microfinance institutions (MFIs) scaling back expansion plans and, in some cases, raising interest rates as a result of the credit-spread increase and the rising cost of borrowing. Certainly, no one is taking their existing funding relationships for granted...
...described the next image, without missing a beat. Such was the nature of The B.S. Contest—with B.S. standing for “business speaking”—sponsored by the Business School’s Public Speaking Club. The club hosted the final round of the event, with a format based on an improv game, for the first time yesterday. Over 40 people auditioned in the preliminary round, but only eight made it through to compete in the finals. Each of the contestants had seven minutes to present seven slides, some with ridiculous pictures...