Banks, finance companies, car dealerships, and other lenders sell credit disability
insurance, which covers your loan payments if you become disabled. Mortgage
lenders push mortgage disability insurance, which makes your home payments if
you have an accident. In general, both credit and mortgage disability insurance
policies are not good investments because they are overpriced. You are better
served by more comprehensive forms of disability coverage.
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likely.”
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dressing-table seat. I motioned to the whisky bottle with a half-lifted brow,
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dogged manner. “I do know the Bailey.”
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investments worth over $20 billion over the next five years.
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rethought after this past year. The rescues of banks, insurers and mortgage lenders have also left some
cleaning up to do. It seems harsh to criticise decisions improvised under pressure over a series of
autumn weekends, but the authorities were inconsistent. The rescue of Bear Stearns wiped out the
common shareholders. The rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac junked both the common shares and
the preferred shares (which rank above them in a bankruptcy). With Lehman Brothers, everyone lo
SIR – You advised “Generation Y” workers, who were born in the 1980s and 1990s, to “take the world as
it is, not as they would like it to be” (“Managing the Facebookers”, January 3rd). When I was planning
my career every article I read about the future of employment said that I would have to become a
multilingual renaissance man, happy to fly anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice, with no job
security or employee loyalty. Unless I focused my energies on “brand me” I would
governments that followed. They seem to have sorted things out without taxpayers’ help, which is more
than can be said of some big Western firms. But they remain a powerful family in a country with weak
capital-market regulation. Given the lack of disclosure about the deals, minority shareholders in both B&B
and Bumi do not yet know if they should be cursing the Bakries—or cheering their brilliant deal-making.
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