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...while foreclosures are certainly bad for banks, higher interest rates alone aren't. It is not the level of interest rates that matters to bank bottom lines, but the difference between short-term rates and long-term rates. Banks make money when they can borrow money on a short-term basis - think about your deposits - at little costs and lend it out on a longer-term basis - your mortgage - at a higher rate. That's what economists call the yield curve. And the steepness of the curve, which is the difference between short-term rates and long-term rates...
...former New York Times reporter Linda J. Greenhouse ’68, New York City Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ’81, and the Smithsonian’s Director of the Museum of Natural History Cristián Samper won six-year terms in an alumni vote to serve on the 30-member board.Former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Joshua S. Boger, who received the sixth most votes, will serve the remaining three-year term vacated by Arne S. Duncan ’86, who left to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education...
...website to accompany investigative reports and present data to readers in formats such as searchable databases and interactive charts. "The forms of journalism might be changing, but the role of the media to inform the public and hold government accountable remains the same," says Boyer, who coined the term "hacker journalist" to describe this new breed of newsman. "That's where technologists can help...
...five individuals they believed were chiefly responsible for the bombing. Using their own savings, donations and legal aid, they raised about $2.4 million to fund their case, with more families coming on board later. Their subsequent claim for more than $15 million in damages was based on the long-term psychological impacts of the atrocity - posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and alcoholism - which continue to affect many of the victims' family members. Given their disappointments in the past, the odds seemed stacked against them...
...What are we going to do with all this ... stuff? Over the past decade, schools like Princeton, NYU, Cornell, Harvard and Ohio State have each instituted some sort of program to collect unwanted items and either donate them to charity or sell them at the beginning of the following term...