It is to Todd's, and his master's, everlasting credit that they ordered and employed not the cheapest but the temporarily affordable best and brightest.

ECONOMIST: Architecture

If outsourcing call centers cut costs for American Express (NYSE:AXP), it also does for its credit card competitors Visa (NYSE:V) and Master Card (NYSE:MA).

FORBES: The Unintended Consequences of Outsourcing

That said, the Bank of American Merrill Lynch High-Grade Bond Master Index is up 3.75% through April 30 as a result of spread compression across the credit markets from the more lofty levels of the fourth quarter.

FORBES: Connect

The schemes Blago allegedly invented to "monetize" his public authority, while never rising to the sophistication of, say, a credit default swap, still showed a cunning that would command the respect of any Wall Street Ponzi master.

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