The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.
Speaking ahead of the announcement, Mr Hammond had said the plans would bring the UK's armed forces closer in line with its major allies, all of whom have a bigger reserve element in their forces.
The Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the U.S. Federal Reserve all purchased financial assets such as bonds with freshly printed money.
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Still, with the Federal Reserve buying bonds and pushing down yields on all fixed-income investments, investor appetite for junk bonds may continue unabated even if the opportunity for price appreciation is limited.
But last Friday many observers were disappointed that the president-elect didn't make any further personnel announcements after meeting with an all-star cast of economic advisers that included former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and former Treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.
The Federal Reserve would step in with an offer to buy any and all Treasuries at par value.
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If all else fails, you can take it up with the regulator - the Reserve Bank of India.
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The short-term problem is that just talking about all this makes it worse, as we've seen with the Federal Reserve's attempt to "twist".
Even Alan Greenspan, the cautious chairman of the Federal Reserve, had started to fret about what the government would do with all the surplus revenues filling its coffers.
After all, the Bundesbank and America's Federal Reserve have a steady dialogue with their governments.
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.
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Some of the biggest banks, and all bank holding companies, are also supervised by states but in conjunction with the local branches of the Federal Reserve.
Ten of the Virgin Atlantic's frequent fliers recently worked with the airline, Sarova Hotels and charity Water for All to help rebuild a school in the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya.
She has a reputation for reserve: for being likable but shy and thin-skinned, and not at all comfortable with the personal impact of having created a modern myth, sold four hundred and fifty million books, and inspired more than six hundred thousand pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction, a total that increases by at least a thousand stories a week.
On the other hand, bear markets also tend to coincide with rising interest rates whereas now, for all his tough talk, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, shows little inclination to put rates up.
Though regulators from the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC and myriad state and city agencies are all charged with overseeing banks, all were caught completely flat-footed by the troubles that hit the finance industry like a sledgehammer in 2008.
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