Word: moneyman
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...That's why no Wall Street moneyman in his right mind would finance a new reactor. But President Obama has located an alternative financier: you. On Tuesday he announced an $8.33 billion loan guarantee for the new Vogtle reactors, the first step in the Administration's push to jump-start the nuclear construction industry. Obama also urged Congress to set aside political differences and triple the budget for nuclear loan guarantees. "On an issue that affects our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, we can't keep on being mired in the same old stale debates between...
...schedule to small-dollar events. In Kentucky, the month after he announced his run for President, the first such effort quickly sold out all 3,200 tickets at $25 a head - and produced the beginning of a local organization. "It's the difference between hunting and farming," says Obama moneyman Matthew Barzun, 37, the Louisville Internet-publishing entrepreneur who arranged the event. "You plant a seed, and you get much more...
...love, although there are hints of that too in, say, 300. This is the kind of sacrificial, I'll-do-anything-for-you love that we associate with young lovers. Ocean's Thirteen is essentially the story of what guys will do to avenge the frilly-shirt-wearing Vegas moneyman they adore. (One of them writes him love letters!) Spider-Man 3 is as much about Peter Parker and erstwhile best friend Harry Osborn getting back together as it is about Peter and Mary Jane. In Knocked Up, the courtship that's most fun to watch is that between...
...most part, the founders of Giuliani Partners were as New York as breakfast at Barney Greengrass. One man stood out: Roy Bailey. He wasn't part of the city's revival or linked to its gutsy endurance. Bailey was a Texan, a Republican moneyman and a former finance chairman of the Texas G.O.P. and was therefore intimately familiar with the inner workings and deep pockets of the most awesome fund-raising operation in political history, the Bush network...
...bonds--IOUs with relatively poor quality ratings--and other securities that offer high yields. Like the banks, investors count on getting their money back from earnings of the acquired firm or from the sale of its assets. "Lenders look for a business that is very stable," says a California moneyman. "The company ought to generate lots of cash...