Word: defaulting
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...hindsight, the housing market in the U.S. was a bubble." The cause? Superlow interest rates that encouraged lenders to offer loans to virtually anyone, even those with bad credit. Those loans were then bundled together into exotic derivatives and sold off to financial institutions worldwide; when borrowers began to default on their mortgages, money managers from São Paulo to Seoul suffered huge losses...
...think anybody in that [locker] room thinks that we’re not a team that can challenge for the league title and be an NCAA [Tournament]-type team.”NET GAINIt might have been easy to think that Kyle Richter became the Harvard goaltender by default. After all, the only truly viable alternative, Justin Tobe ’07, graduated after winning the starting job over Richter late last season.Richter, however, isn’t playing like a last resort. To anyone who might have thought so, the blanking of Rensselaer and Union proved otherwise...
Beamed from Dubai, MTV Arabia targets 15-to-35-year-olds from Bahrain to Cairo. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the channel's most important market for advertising but also the most conservative, so K.S.A. 2.0, as the youngest MTV executives call it, is the default setting for how far is too far. The launch team, a mix of Saudis, Palestinians, Emiratis, Iraqis and Lebanese, decided on a 60-40 split between music videos and reality programming...
...Worldwide, the total value of shares from 25 countries tracked on the MSCI Emerging Market Index is now at its highest level since the mid-1990s, a time considered by many to have been a bubble (one that was popped by the 1997 Asian crisis and Russia's credit default). Yet investors are still piling in - inflows into emerging-market funds have been about $24 billion so far this year, exceeding $22.4 billion for all of last year...
...perhaps just as significantly, Parodi continues, French public opinion that has long tended to back virtually any labor movement by default - often to the amazement of foreign observers - now appears to agree with Sarkozy's view that the time has come for change. "Strikes and opposition to reform has been something of a rite in French society, and there's a feeling today that this reoccurring ritual is now both outdated and counter-productive," Parodi explains. "There's a very strong feeling this time around that enough is enough - it's time to face reality and move ahead...