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...illustrates, there is plenty of bottom left to wait for. It's a far cry from the days of double-digit home-price gains and mass speculation in hot markets like Las Vegas--where 40% of the houses up for sale now sit vacant. What's astonishing about this particular real estate bust, though, is the way the damage has pinballed across the financial universe: mortgage companies in Los Angeles, banks in Seattle, hedge funds in Australia, the European Central Bank, Wall Street investment houses and Main Street stockholders have all had the American real estate market fall on them...
...public what really happens on Wall Street and how the securities defense bar protects them," says Turner, referring to what he says is rampant insider trading. "This could have been a blockbuster case, it gets at the heart of what is the problem with Wall Street hedge funds." Of particular concern to Turner and others is that Congress continues to "bleed" the SEC of staff and resources, overwhelming its ability to keep pace with the expanding and increasingly sophisticated markets...
...First Lady. She often said that she took the time to dress well because that was what was expected of her. She wrote and spoke about the joy of giving - not acquiring - and enjoyed every minute of giving money away. She visited every institution her foundation funded. In particular, I still remember a very touching scene when she visited one of the branch libraries and sat, entranced, next to a grandmother who was reading to her grandchild. When her foundation eventually exhausted its resources in support of institutions, programs and projects that benefited the public, Mrs. Astor celebrated that fact...
...Mattel said that it had worked with Lee Der for many years and that the company had a good track record on production standards. The recall was a particular blow to Mattel, which had enjoyed a reputation for closely monitoring product safety and work conditions at the foreign factories to which it outsourced production, and was seen as a model for U.S. companies who were working with manufacturers in China...
...prove the two men could differ without undermining bilateral relations. "Do we agree on everything? No," Sarkozy told the press contingent outside the Bush estate Saturday. "Even within families there are disagreements, but we are still the same family." Concurred Bush: "We have had disagreements, on Iraq in particular. But I've never allowed disagreements to not find other ways to work together...