European banks held a lot of US sub-prime debt.

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"This business is more rational than a lot of other retail sub-sectors, " says Stephanie Hoff, an analyst at Edward Jones.

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CEOs will keep getting paid a lot by their boards for sub-par results.

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Roger Ferguson (member of sub-group): Loaded into tax code a lot of options that probably made sense when it started but now seems more like an untended garden.

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But if we are going to go there, and dive deep into another Boston season of rage, I would like to take the controls of the Spaceship of Crazy, fly it briefly down to Planet Earth and remind Red Sox fans, so furious about this sub-.500 campaign, that they still don't have a lot to complain about.

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After graduating he worked briefly for the North Wales water authority and from 1985 to 1986 he worked as a sub-sea engineer and diver for British Underwater Engineering based in London, spending a lot of time off-shore.

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