The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Edward George, has also suggested that house price rises are set to cool.
The American writers Temple most resembles are Richard Price, Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos all of whom look squarely at the depths of depravity that humans are capable of (and write like fallen angels).
Or to put it another way, George Osborne has a choice of three numbers for the price he would need to receive for RBS shares to prevent a loss for taxpayers, 407p, 440p and 502p.
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Much of this good news is already baked into the share price of Manchester United, whose investors include George Soros, but it suggests that European football teams will have a better chance of earning sustainable profits.
Rather than recognise their own role in creating the food-price spike, many Western politicians (notably President George Bush) have pointed to rising affluence in emerging economies.
"That's nuts, " said Toan to his chief financial officer, George Paz, as he watched his company's stock price jump 40% on news that Express Scripts planned to open an Internet drugstore to compete with much-hyped startups such as drugstore.com and PlanetRx.
Finally, we reach near present-day where on President George W. Bush's watch the world saw the third great oil price spike.
Price hit an opener 3-pointer in the opening minute, George Fant was able to use his superior quickness against the bigger Withey in the paint, and the Hilltoppers who needed four wins to capture the Sun Belt tournament title and the league's automatic bid slowly built a 20-16 lead.
What Sir Philip and his chief executive, Stephen Hester, can't control is what happens to RBS's share price - which will have a big bearing on whether the Chancellor, George Osborne, wants to start the privatisation.
It went public in 1986 and is now run by a seven-person management committee headed by soft-spoken Chairman George Roche, 63, who joined in 1968 as an analyst and worked closely with Price.
The argument against is that there may be few or no natural buyers for the bonds - which could leave George Osborne with egg on his face, unable to sell the bonds at an acceptable price.
Though George Soros, Paul Tudor Jones and John Paulsen do capitalism a great favor through the price signals they help shape from their hedge funds, a stable dollar would make their work much less lucrative.
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