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...Right before the markets began to unravel last year, Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, presciently quipped that he hadn't "felt this good since 1998," referring to the Wall Street wipeout precipitated that year by Russia's defaulting on its ruble debt. Blankfein argued that confidence in global markets had built up to a dangerously giddy level and that investors weren't being compensated for assuming outsize risk in securities like esoteric bonds and Chinese stocks. Blankfein was right, of course, but even he wasn't paranoid enough. Though Goldman stands, along with Morgan Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...euros per year, officials say. From this year onward, those funds are theoretically taxable, but Asscher admits that while prostitutes' income taxes could bring the city millions in revenues, few are likely to pay up - underlining the city's position that legalizing the sex industry has done little to unravel criminals' control over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice Versa: Amsterdam Cleans Up | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

...Louisma] knew the parameters of this thing. I think he is prepared to assume responsibility for what he did at some point in time." Acosta has filed a not-guilty plea and cannot do appraiser work while the charges are outstanding. Housing experts are certain more schemes will unravel in Florida and beyond. As the mortgage institute's report states, "The unsettled state of the mortgage market as a whole does not bode well for avoiding fraud in the coming year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a Florida Mortgage Scam | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...suggested that the seniors were actually asking her to help them unravel the meaning of life...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Offers Parting Advice to Graduates | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...suggested that the seniors were actually asking her to help them unravel the meaning of life...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: In Baccalaureate Address, Faust Gives Harvard Seniors Parting Advice | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

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