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...believe that he would be sitting in Barack Obama's chair in the Oval Office if only he had been born a U.S. citizen. Instead he runs California, which may be the nation's most populous state while being at the same time the one closest to economic ruin...
...Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch could be the ruin of this bank. The bad assets of the brokerage firm were apparently both huge and well-hidden by management, the brokerage firm's board, or the auditors. The most charitable view of the people in charge at Merrill is that they were boobs. Anything beyond that starts to point a finger in the direction of liability and shareholder suits...
...problems. There is no need to guess where the first trillion or second trillion comes from. The federal government prints it, selling it off as Treasury debt. Fortunately, there are not signs that the appetite for this paper is anywhere close to being satisfied. In a world facing economic ruin sometimes the best investment is the least...
...While Schleicher cannot divulge if he won—“They reserve the right to ruin my life and take my first-born child if I say how I did”—he did share that he and Trebek didn’t exactly get along...
...Iraq, the growth of religious extremism in Pakistan, a President caught between the U.S. and Islamic fundamentalism at home, the worst earthquake in the country's history and the imposition of emergency rule would inspire uproarious comedy. But as Pakistan and the world outside go to rack and ruin, all these register as noises off - if at all - in the consciousness of Butterfly, saturated as it is with frequently misspelled brand names ("La Prarry ki face cream and Landscomb ka mascara"), manic socializing and "GTs" (get-togethers...