The design includes an 11-foot couch, an 1, 100-pound bar, a drop-down ceiling and a magnificent shag rug.

CNN: Oscar green room 'comfortable and glamorous'

You could arrange for the set to drop from the ceiling as it does in planes, but this expensive option locks you into your existing equipment.

WSJ: Disguise Your TV

And instead of moving with urgency the Trojans dallied as the clock ticked, like browsing SkyMall magazine as a plane's oxygen masks drop from the ceiling.

WSJ: Notre Dame Beats USC for BCS Berth: Two Yards and a World of Difference

With rumors over the future of Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve dissipating, and investors preparing for another all-out political battle on the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling, yields could drop even further, to 1.5% or below, according to Barclays.

FORBES: Romney's Defeat Means Treasuries May Fall Below 1.5% On Fiscal Cliff And Bernanke

The tariff ceiling for agriculture products is expected to drop to 10.8% from 13.2% and for manufactured goods it will go from 9.5% to 7.3% The final bound import rate will be in place on the date of entry into the WTO on most goods, with roughly 25% of future tariff cuts to be implemented three years later.

FORBES: Russian Trade Tariffs Heading Lower In WTO

Here we are, after months of squabbling, with the drop-dead date of August 2 for raising the debt ceiling only two weeks away.

FORBES: Foolishly At The Brink!

This reflects a sharp drop in house prices and sales, cutting tax revenues and pushing the budget deficit close to the stability-pact ceiling this year, and probably over it in 2009.

ECONOMIST: The French president mollifies his tone towards Ireland