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Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Pity the Germans. They did everything right vis a vis finance and things went wrong. They did not go into consumer debt like the Americans, they did not have a real estate boom and bust like the Americans, unlike the Americans their savings rate was high…but the problem is that as a result German banks piled money and did not know what to do with it. So they lent it to Americans. So eager in...
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Covers.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Minnesota’s quarterback switcheroo has backfired with NFL football bettors, who are piling money on the visiting, underdog Carolina Panthers. Carolina, a 3½-point dog, is getting over 60 percent of wagers placed on the game at Sportingbet.com.
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
... hit record peaks across the world," it said.So keen were investors to find a haven that they piled money into short-term US Treasury bills, even though they were offering only 0.02 per cent interest, the lowest rate since January 1941.In the US, the stock market took another dive, hit by selling from investors worried that the financial crisis was spinning so far out of control that even...
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SFO Mom (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Little Brother and Adventure Boy are busy playing a game of Pokemon Monopoly (we inherited this game from Boy Next Door). They don't have a good idea of the rules of the game, and Little Brother is choosing to ignore the instruction booklet. He's carefully piling money according to color while Adventure Boy painstakingly stacks the little clear blue square thingies that are this game's...
