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...says he refused to cooperate with the internal probe and at one point ripped pages out of a diary. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are also investigating the company's finances. The stakes couldn't be higher. Freddie Mac holds or insures mortgages totaling $1.3 trillion. Any lasting scandal could drive up its borrowing costs and lead to higher mortgage rates--slowing a housing market that for three years has been the economy's main driver. --By Daniel Kadlec and Adam Zagorin
...wonder. In the space of a year, according to research firm IDC, the number of uninvited entries into U.S. In boxes has shot up 85%, to a total of 4.9 trillion. Driven by cheap technology and the promise of easy profit, spammers have gone from pests to an invasive species of parasite that threatens to clog the inner workings of the Internet. For the first time last month, according to MessageLabs, more than half the emails received by U.S. businesses were unsolicited. The time we spend deleting or defeating spam costs an estimated $8.9 billion a year in lost productivity...
...economy will be put to the test as reporters demand to know when the promised boost is going to kick in. "These things take time," will be the inevitable answer. True, but not enough, especially since Bush's promises about the economic turnaround that would follow his $1.4 trillion tax cut in 2001 went unfilled. The White House could blame 9/11 and two wars for that. This time, reporters - and voters - will expect more...
...Prince's bin Laden--related troubles may not be over, and not only because the terrorist leader is still gunning for his family. Sultan is one of scores of defendants in a $1 trillion lawsuit brought by relatives of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The plaintiffs allege that Sultan made large donations to Islamic charities that supported the Sept. 11 hijackers. Sultan's attorneys at the law firm Baker Botts, where former Secretary of State James Baker is partner, counter that Sultan's contributions came from government coffers and were disbursed by the Prince...
...exempt investors tend to be a conservative bunch. So they may be excused for choking on the sudden sickliness of so-called state tobacco bonds. These unusual securities, whose prices have bucked wildly, are a small part of the $1.8 trillion U.S. municipal-bond market. But they've infected other bonds, boosting volatility and hurting prices. Yet some bargains have emerged...