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...Critics say the bazaar-like atmosphere is hardly fitting. They note that the auction was court-ordered with the limited objective of reimbursing $405,000 in debt Marceau racked up at the end of his life to finance his shows. To ensure that sum is obtained, the auctioneers have set astonishingly low opening prices so everything will find a taker. (See pictures of Marceau...
...White House plans to take the high road in selling Sotomayor to the public. They will point to her résumé, her previous Senate confirmation and her impeccable credentials to make a case for her. Obama's aides are so confident in the political pluses of this pick that some of them would welcome attempts by fringe conservatives to come after her. A few would even like liberals to attack her as insufficiently committed to their causes...
Geithner has said he'd like to see the board reduced to 20 seats, with more say for the BRIC bloc. Although that makes economic sense, it will be very hard to achieve, warns Prasad: "It's a zero-sum game: for someone to gain a bigger role, someone else has to lose theirs...
...year. The level of interest that will be paid on this paper will be a litmus test of the market's appetite for debt in the country that has the largest GDP in the world but is well on its way to owing a record sum to its creditors...
...into individual companies or into the purchase of securities in the open market, they use internal models for what they expect in returns. That is the only way for the government to measure whether pieces of the stimulus package are working. In every case when there is a specific sum put into the market there is certainly an estimated return, both an amount and a timeline...