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...beneficiaries of the program. The noodle factory employs 3,500 and estimates its annual sales at $50 million. One of the country's largest producers of rice vermicelli, egg noodles and wheat biscuits, TPS saw its production drop about 20% after the fall of Suharto as wheat prices doubled. TPS vice president Budhi Istanto, whose family started the business in 1959, credits IRD with helping the company "get back to its optimal capacity. We were not going to close, but we slowed production as the price of wheat rose and people were buying less...
...Alexandria, Va., who delivered some of the most accurate estimates of the cost of the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s. The S&L experience is instructive: the cost estimates started low (Ely's first guess was $25 billion), then eventually grew to $500 billion. The actual price tag, as calculated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) long after the fact: $123.8 billion, or about 2% of annual GDP during the bailout years. That's equivalent to $286 billion today...
...windfall-profits tax in order to increase the state's take. Alaska calls it a "clear and equitable share" tax. The state assumes that extracting oil from the tundra costs about $25 per bbl. and takes as much as 75% of the difference between that and the sale price...
...estimated 25% of America's high-risk property. Reinsurance rates are soaring, and private insurers like State Farm and Allstate have scaled back in Florida, forcing an additional 500,000 customers into the state pool. "For some areas in Florida, insurance companies could not obtain reinsurance at any price," Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty recently told Congress. And last year, Republican Governor Charlie Crist pushed through reforms to decrease premiums, a politically popular move that will create even more pressure if disaster strikes. "I get the concerns," Crist recently told me. "But we're not going to stand for gouging...
...students who want a complete, original copy of the textbook, free from someone else's roving highlighter or absent-minded doodles, international editions are hard to ignore. "Not all of my books were available as international editions, and sometimes the price break between ordering off eBay and buying in the bookstore wasn't large enough to warrant the extra effort," says Rodgers, who graduated last spring with a degree in neuroscience. "but I always checked." (To see the evolution of the college dorm room click here...