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July 2009

I can do that. Gissa job!


Jobs are scarce and job interviews competitive but how far would you go to get noticed? From a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com, an online jobs site in the US, apparently candidates are willing to try any tricks. Here’s a selection of tactics that employers reported during the survey:




  A résumé arrived in the post along with a shoe to signify getting your foot in the door; Résumés were handed...


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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are too big to fail by an order of magnitude, in terms of the contingent liability to the federal government.

Thomas Stanton, a Washington attorney who once worked for Fannie Mae. From the archive: Freddie and Fannie arent sovereign, July 1999

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