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...housing market overall is starting to stabilize and move a bit sideways but certainly is not on the upswing," says Heather Fernandez, vice president of Trulia, a real estate research firm. "Our best guess is that the market continues to move sideways in 2010 and we start to see recovery in sales and prices in more markets across...
Among English speakers he is better known, not as an author, but as a character in the works of Jorge Luis Borges. Fernández was a close friend of the South American literary giant, and Borges cites Fernandez as one of his most important mentors and influences. The two share a desire to discover what actually lies at the core of the accepted concepts of time, structure and pattern, and the less accepted ones of metaphysics and the unconscious mind. Borges draws the analogy that in his conversations with Fernández he was like Plato who listened...
...comparison to the colorful Fernandez, Cobos seems drab. A soft-spoken family man who was dean of a technological university in the wine-growing province of Mendoza, Cobos became provincial governor in 2003 and then quit the Radical Party so he could run as Fernandez's No. 2. Relations between the two quickly soured. Since assuming office, Fernandez has renationalized companies that were privatized in the 1990s including airlines and public utilities, and privatized pension-fund assets worth $30 billion. She also led the country to the brink of a civilian uprising over her brash attempt to levy a hefty...
...Economic collapse and social unrest led Argentina to default on $141 billion in foreign debt. Since then, the rambunctious Peronists have dominated Argentina's political scene, first under Nestor Kirchner, who oversaw the country's return to decent economic health, and then under his wife Fernandez, who was labeled Argentina's new Evita when she won the presidency herself. (See the top 10 feuds...
...Fernandez now argues that there is a "conspiracy" between the central bank president Martin Redrado, Vice President Cobos, farmers and the country's media moguls who have begun reporting on corruption in her administration. She has also claimed that Redrado and Cobos are in league with the "vulture funds" and "river rats," as she terms the foreign creditors who hold a large part of the country's debt. "Cobos is the leader of the opposition and wants to be a candidate, but he could be a candidate without conspiring against the government," the President argued this week...