Launch of Adagio City Aparthotel

Launch of Adagio City Aparthotel
Oct 05, 07 | 7:56 am

Groupe Pierre & Vacances and Accor have launched Adagio City Aparthotel, a city residence brand, which is now being marketed on www.adagio-city.com, www.pv-holidays.com and www.accorhotels.com.

http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=A12128_0_11_0_M

Tesco: Europe's biggest property company

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Tesco: Europe's biggest property company
12:01AM BST 22 Apr 2007

Baked beans and mange tout make up a small part of what makes the supermarket tick, write James Hall and Jonathan Russell

Algae eyed as next biofuel source in RP by '08

http://www.thenewstoday.info/2007/04/02/algae.eyed.as.next.biofuel.source.in.rp.by.08.html

Updated April 2, 2007 Iloilo City, Philippines
Algae eyed as next biofuel source in RP by '08

Roxas City – After sugarcane, coconut, jatropha, cassava and sweet sorghum, here comes algae.

The PNOC Alternative Fuels Corp. may introduce the use of biodiesel from algae next year, saying it is about to enter talks with a US-based firm engaged in algae technology on how to derive and market biodiesel from algae.

Macklowes Notch Second-Biggest Building Buy in U.S. History

Macklowes Notch Second-Biggest Building Buy in U.S. History
By John Koblin 2/19/07 12:00 am

Macklowe Properties paid $1.73 billion for Worldwide Plaza at 825 Eighth Avenue, the second-largest sale price for an office building in U.S. history.

http://observer.com/2007/02/macklowes-notch-secondbiggest-building-buy-in-us-history/

Consider these 'words of wisdom' about investing

Articles: Sir John Templeton

Consider these 'words of wisdom' about investing
By Bob Parkman
9/20/2006

Many of us are inspired by great quotations. And you can find plenty of them related to investing. Let's take a look at some of these quotes to determine what they may have to offer us.

http://www.sirjohntempleton.org/

Mezzanine and Equity Financing For Real Estate Deals:

Mezzanine and Equity Financing For Real Estate Deals:

Historically, foreign entities have been willing to invest in the U.S. real estate market either as the senior lender to the project or as an equity player. Recently, foreign investors have shown a greater willingness to also provide the mezzanine financing for U.S. real estate projects. This article discusses the business and legal differences and risks associated with this type of financing as compared with equity financing.

AFI #042 Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967)

Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?

- Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967)

The bolded line is ranked #42 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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http://vanziggy.blog.me/50040490628

AFI #057 Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko from Wall Street (1987)

Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

- Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko from Wall Street (1987)

The bolded line is ranked #57 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thomas Barrack Jr.

Thomas Barrack Jr.

THOMAS J. BARRACK JR. is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Colony Capital, LLC, and Colony Advisors, LLC. As such, he provides overall strategic and investment direction and leadership to the firm.

http://www.twst.com/interview/14942

Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke

Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.
November 21, 2002

Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here

Since World War II, inflation--the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services--has been the bane of central bankers. Economists of various stripes have argued that inflation is the inevitable result of (pick your favorite) the abandonment of metallic monetary standards, a lack of fiscal discipline, shocks to the price of oil and other commodities, struggles over the distribution of income, excessive money creation, self-confirming inflation expectations, an "inflation bias" in the policies of central banks, and still others. Despite widespread "inflation pessimism," however, during the 1980s and 1990s most industrial-country central banks were able to cage, if not entirely tame, the inflation dragon. Although a number of factors converged to make this happy outcome possible, an essential element was the heightened understanding by central bankers and, equally as important, by political leaders and the public at large of the very high costs of allowing the economy to stray too far from price stability.