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...leader of Harvard’s BOND, a student group self-described as “geared toward those who may not be ‘straight,’” sent an email to the organization on Tuesday encouraging members to dontate blood, but to lie in an effort to circumvent the Red Cross screening policy...
...That last claim happens to be true - sort of. Rock-hard fiscal discipline can persuade the bond markets to bid down long-term interest rates, which make home and car loans cheaper and borrowing consumers richer. But mortgage rates are already at lows for the year, mainly because these days the bond marketeers' first concern is the same as everybody else's: the dismal state of the economy. And economists have been saying since the days of Keynes that austerity is definitely not the way to end a slowdown - in the short run, it's likely to make things worse...
CareGroup’s financial difficulties were further confirmed when Standard & Poor’s, the bond rating firm, designated CareGroup’s issues as “below investment grade.” In a press statement at the end of August, interim CEO Robert Melzer said that the rating won’t have a large impact on the immediate future of the group and that the downgrade was not unexpected. Melzer said that there were no plans to borrow more money, and that the bonds were insured so that there is little risk to current bond...
...Bill Clinton, of course, loved to talk about the economy. He finished the job on the deficits that Bush had begun, Alan Greenspan went to bat for him with the bond markets, long-term interest rates flattened, and two terms of bragging and bulletproof prosperity ensued. But toward the end, a huge market bubble formed and burst, just in time for Clinton to skip town and leave Bush to deal with...
...also be hurting the economy--and hitting Americans in the wallet. Despite Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's seven short-term interest-rate cuts, long-term rates--the ones that govern home mortgages--have hardly budged. The reason: those rates are set not by the Fed but by bond traders, many of whom are clearly spooked by economic uncertainty and anticipate more government borrowing in the future. Mortgage rates, though fairly low, could be lower--and if they were, even more Americans would be refinancing their mortgages and getting back hundreds of dollars a month to spend or save...