Hints and tips:
...Nellie Mae Rowe’s “Pocketbook” (1982), in paint and pencil, was her final drawing after a cancer diagnosis, its indigo purse aglow with memories....
...Whatever: when Presley was first played a demo of the song by Axton in a hotel room, he is reported to have said, “Hot dog, Mae, play that again!”...
...Such comments echo the arguments raised by Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chief executive, that burdensome US regulation might lead the next financial superpower to come from China....
...His comments echo similar concerns expressed a day earlier by executives at Freddie. The US government, through Fannie and Freddie, owns or guarantees the majority of the country’s mortgages....
...The White House projections echo what the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan agency, reported earlier this year when it showed the US on a rapidly improving short-term fiscal trajectory....
...Car-free, with cheap buses and reached by tramway or subway, it seems a slightly un-American island, an echo of a place that could have been....
...In the next decade the “echo boom” generation will start to try to buy houses....
...About $38bn of the $185bn cost of the payroll tax cuts would be paid for by demanding that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-owned mortgage giants, charge lenders higher fees to guarantee the repayment...
...(Les Echos)....
...In terms of what needs to be done once a bubble bursts, I tend to echo what BP and the other oil companies have been saying about the oil spills: The point is to make sure they don’t happen in the first...
...In 1979, when Thatcherism confronted Labour’s socialism, Time magazine exulted in an election that presented voters “with a clear choice, not an echo”. No longer....
...The case has echos of LTCM, notes Felix Salmon. Its problem isn’t risky securities; its system-wide spread widening and flight to liquidity, combined with outsize leverage, at about 32 times....
...When Mr Darling spoke at Labour’s conference last month about the US government nationalising Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, delegates clapped. It was not intended as an applause line....
...A stuffed polar bear greets you in the hall beside a crossbow, an old wind-up telephone and a sofa shaped like Mae West’s lips....
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