Investor demand for mortgage-backed securities--and banks' eagerness to buy loans, package and sell them to this hungry crowd--helped create the incredible run-up in the mortgage market over the last three years.

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BSkyB is expected to buy the package of Monday night games - which it has already won from 2010-11 onwards.

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Wall Street has enthusiastically financed mortgage lenders over the latest real estate boom cycle, providing loans for companies such as New Century to fund new mortgages that the investment firms could buy up, package into bundles of securities and sell to yield-hungry investors.

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Even if I were to buy into the Keynesian stimulus logic, everything in this package is so under-scale as to be rounding errors on the larger economy.

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Team principal Ross Brawn led a rescue package to buy out the team and continue work on Honda's 2009 car design -- the car would help Button win the world drivers' title and the constructors' championship for Brawn GP that season.

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Germany - a key contributor to any rescue package - is arguing with France and the European Central Bank over the extent to which private investors should buy new Greek bonds and share the risk burden.

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Even if a company made the best-tasting food or created the most elegant software package, there just might not be enough consumers to buy what that company was offering and its profits would plummet, as would its stock price.

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