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...easy to say that because Citi and B of A are public companies that the government's shares can be sold. That will be nearly impossible. The minute the Fed signals that it is time for an orderly exit is the minute that other shareholders get panicky, driving the value of the firms down. In a vicious circle, the value of the government's interests get depressed by the fact that it would like to get taxpayers their money back. Even if the value of banks rise temporarily. taking the profits off the table will be problematic...
...than before. Property launches are thronged, especially for cheaper suburban homes. Nor are Singaporeans just flipping the pages of the glossy property brochures or sadly gazing at the architectural models, wishing they were one of the frolicking toy figures in the miniature pool. They're buying too. Property developers sold 1,332 units of new private homes in February, a bumper sales crop that was the highest since August 2007, when the economy was booming. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...glad to throw in the embarrassing revelation as a freebie. There's something creepy - but delightfully so - about how Jane looks at the rest of us as simple machines whose gears he can see whirring on the surface. CBS, which gets a 60% female audience for The Mentalist, has sold Jane as a woman's fantasy: "Finally, a man who listens." But really - and entertainingly - he's more like a superman who listens...
...aside that titillating vampire lit. Author Beverly Lewis has come up with a new magic formula for producing best-selling romance novels: humility, plainness and no sex. Lewis' G-rated books, set among the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have sold more than 12 million copies, as bodice rippers make room for "bonnet books," chaste romances that chronicle the lives and loves of America's Amish...
...move for her," says Lewis. "She was 18 when she left. She took off her head covering, and she decided that she was going to wear a simple gold wedding band, and she was excommunicated." Lewis' first novel, The Shunning, which told that story, was a surprise hit that sold more than a million copies. In all, she has written 87 books, many for children and teens...