Word: wakefulness
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THAT A REAL ESTATE BUST MIGHT LAND US IN a recession is in a way fitting because it was a real estate boom that kept the last recession, in 2001, so brief and shallow. Trying to stave off deflation in the wake of the stock-market crash, Alan Greenspan's Federal Reserve cut the short-term interest rates that determine what homeowners pay on adjustable-rate mortgages. Meanwhile, investors desperate for someplace other than the stock market to put their money piled into mortgage securities, driving down the cost of fixed-rate loans. Housing markets, already doing well amid...
Benjamin J. Heller ’94, a managing director at the hedge fund HBK Investments who has known El-Erian professionally for a decade, said yesterday that El-Erian’s legacy would be his rebuilding of HMC’s internal management team in the wake of Meyer’s departure...
...Diet, with an ambitious call to remake the country's postwar system, to create what he termed "a beautiful Japan." His vision was of an influential and energetic Japan, one that would not be bound by the pacifism that he believed had been forced on the Japanese in the wake of World War II, a nation whose presence on the geopolitical stage would finally match its economic muscle...
...wake of the summer’s subprime mortgage meltdown, Harvard economists are divided on the course of action Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 should take at the Fed’s upcoming policy meeting. Subprime mortgages—loans which banks make on highly favorable terms to potential homeowners with weak credit histories—became common in recent years, but a rash of recent defaults has sent the mortgage industry into turmoil. Amidst worries that the mortgage crisis could be causing a general economic slowdown, many argue that an interest rate...
...Durwood provided 36 assists and Mays added 15, giving way to the offensive onslaught from McKinley (17 kills), Mahon (13), Trimble (12) and senior Mimi Hanley (11). Mahon also posted 11 digs to record a double-double.Wofford’s steal of game two provided a “wake up call,” according to Trimble.“At no point in our minds was there any thought that they were going to beat us,” Trimble said. “So when they did, we picked up the energy—turned things around...