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...Thrift Supervision (OTS) issued a report showing that at national banks and federally regulated thrifts, nearly 37% of homeowners were 60 or more days behind on their payments six months after receiving a modification. That re-default problem has received much attention as the national conversation has turned toward the idea of taxpayers standing behind modifications. "You wouldn't want the government to be on the hook for someone who borrowed a lot more in credit-card debt, or what have you, and then couldn't make their payments," OCC head John Dugan said in an interview with Bloomberg...
...decade, however, the situation had become all but untenable for the autocratic government in Warsaw. As complete economic chaos threatened to overwhelm Poland, the Jaruzelski clique was forced to moderate its views toward Solidarity. In September 1988, Minister of Interior Czeslaw Kiszczak had approached Walesa and made the unprecedented move of inviting Solidarity to political talks intended to fix the country’s worsening political and economic situation...
...village. During a recent visit, I saw a man bow his head before a Liu memorial, showing the sort of genuine reverence that's wasn't apparent in Mao's hometown. As I walked through the museum, a tour guide announced that his statue was supposedly gazing toward the bronze of Mao some 30 miles (50 km) away. But as to what Liu was thinking, she didn't venture a guess...
...hero, was executed in 1896. A vulgar, nightly sound-and-light show dramatizes the moment. But far more unnerving, in a city where it's hardly unusual to see children sleeping in cemeteries, is the pomp on display at the 97-year-old Manila Hotel, a 10-minute stroll toward Manila Bay. In the third Rosales novel, My Brother, My Executioner, set just after World War II, the head of "the country's leading sugar family" Eduardo Dantes rents two floors to lodge the European royalty and opera singers he flies in for a party. Luis Asperri, the protagonist...
...manufacturers in Taiwan, which lost a combined $3.5 billion in 2008, according to the Taiwan government. Taiwan's firms are in especially rough shape because they lack the scale, financial resources and technical prowess of their larger Korean and American rivals. The companies' woes are pushing the Taiwan government toward a bailout of the industry. "We have the intention and the resolve to help the DRAM companies through difficult times," Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reportedly told electronics industry executives in early January. Aid is crucial, policymakers believe, because Taiwan's chipmakers are simply too important to the economy, which...