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...stand. Just ask anyone who wants to buy a house with a subprime mortgage - they're not all evil, but these days they are exceedingly rare - or with a jumbo loan, which now carries an average rate 1.2 percentage points above a regular mortgage. (In normal times, the spread is closer to a quarter of a percentage point.) "Some people are saying, 'Credit crunch, what credit crunch?' and others are ready to cry uncle," says Greg McBride, a senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com. "It shows it really matters where you fall on the risk spectrum...
...Protection Every generation endures an event that reinforces the importance of federal guarantees on investments and savings. Your event just happened. But those guarantees have limits. So if you have a lot of cash with any one financial institution, you may not be fully protected. Don't panic. Just spread your assets around to as many banks or brokerages as necessary. In the case of a trust, naming multiple beneficiaries can do the trick as well...
...Diversify Internationally You should always have your savings spread among large, medium and small stocks, bonds and some cash in safe short-term securities. It's more important now than ever before to include in this mix some foreign stocks and bonds. If this crisis deepens, the costs could prove so staggering to the U.S. government that the dollar might plunge or interest rates might rise. Foreign holdings won't be immune to such fallout. But they will at least offer a buffer. "Give up the ability to hit a home run to make sure you don't strike...
...lowest score was for the absence of an anonymous advice column, according to Sperling. “Harvard does a good job for its freshmen,” Rankin said. She cited Sex Signals, Saturday Night magazine, and other efforts by OSAPR designed to spread awareness. “We do our best to facilitate dialogue to prevent sexual assaults. I think we had almost 100 percent attendance at Sex Signals,” Rankin said. Stanford took first place in the report card, up from 41st place last year, while Dartmouth fell 44 places to 68th, the worst finish...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - argued that as painful as it would be to commit such an unprecedented amount of taxpayer money to cleaning up Wall Street's mess, the price of not doing it would be even greater, because the crisis would spread to hurt ordinary businesses and their workers. Supporters of the plan argued that the only way to keep the financial system operating was to have the government buy the junk assets in order to take them off the balance sheets of the banks that now hold them. Congressional leaders of both...