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...paths with Max, she can read the romantic despair on his face. "What was her name?" she asks. Whose name? "The girl from the boring story you want to tell me." For a second we get a whiff of the movie Max Payne might have been: one that introduces standard contrivances only to upend them. Alas, this flash of wit is just another tease. Natasha is soon killed in an alley by unseen flying beasts. Too bad, since Kurylenko is the one watchable woman in Max Payne, and Mila Kunis, the ostensible tough-girl lead...
Once you are well rested, then you can understand your risk tolerance and restate your goals, your investment horizon and your expectations. The standard advice is to continue to buy on a regular basis into a declining market because your average cost of buying shares declines...
...control," says Daniel J. Houston, president of retirement investor services at Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa. The average contribution to a 401(k) plan is 7% of salary, yet the average person may need to save 13% to 15% of his salary to maintain his standard of living in retirement. For people 10 years from retirement, "this might be the best wake-up call we ever got," says Houston...
...fighting and vengeful conclusion had rendered the international atmosphere toxic, making a mockery out of the one transnational institution to have emerged from the conflict, the League of Nations. Adding to those abundant ills was the near religious faith in the sacred orthodoxies of laissez-faire and the gold standard--the economic equivalents of the Nicene Creed...
...past several decades has underwritten prosperity not only for developed countries but for many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits of international economic cooperation in times of crisis, as witnessed...