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...Cestero, commissioner of New York's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. "Ownership of rental properties in New York City is a long-term proposition, and if you do it right, you can make a fair profit, but trying to make a short-term investment is where you can get yourself in trouble...
...story is weak revenue," says analyst Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics. "So the Street can shrug [because of TARP repayments], but it does not get better next quarter...
...that pursued by London's Financial Times. If it works anything like FT.com, after viewing a certain number of articles, readers will be directed to a page where they have to subscribe if they want more of the Times' newsy goodness. Old-school newspaper subscribers, bless their hearts, will get access for free. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...lasted all the way back to camp, until the evening debriefing. The furious commanding officer berated the soldiers, saying that distributing candy could cause children in the future to run out in front of moving humvees, risking an accident. Worse, the enemy could take advantage of the crowd to get close to the vehicles and detonate a bomb, endangering the soldiers and the children. "We are not here to make ourselves feel good," said the officer. "We are here because we have...
Likewise, the economy of the quake zone has done well. Much of the region was agricultural, and farmers were able to get back to work fairly soon after the disaster. The massive rebuilding effort also provided direct investment and job opportunities. Several of the dislocated people I met in the temporary camps had family members working on reconstruction. Overall the quake region produced less than 1% of China's GDP, so it did little to slow the national growth engine. A chief concern was that rebuilding would contribute to inflation. That was largely forgotten over the past year...