Sweden didn’t (don’t) have a negative savings rate. The Riksbank have a negative deposit rate, for over night deposits by commercial banks. To “encourage” them to lend to each other instead. All savings accounts has of course positive interest rates. I have 1,15% at my Swedish bank.

best opener yet, YO!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34423513

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30755.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfnmwQUaUcE&feature=player_embedded

In 1998, the Port Authority approved plans to privatize the World Trade Center. In 2001, the Port Authority sought to lease the World Trade Center to a private entity. Bids for the lease came from Vornado Realty Trust, a joint bid between Brookfield Properties Corporation and Boston Properties, and a joint bid by Silverstein Properties and The Westfield Group.

By privatizing the World Trade Center, it would be added to the city’s tax rolls and provide funds for other Port Authority projects.

On February 15, 2001, the Port Authority announced that Vornado Trust Realty had won the lease for the World Trade Center, paying $3.25 billion for the 99-year lease. Vornado Realty outbid Silverstein by $600 million though Silverstein upped his offer to $3.22 billion.

However, Vornado insisted on last minute changes to the deal, including a shorter 39-year lease which the Port Authority considered nonnegotiable.

Vornado later withdrew and Silverstein’s bid for the lease to the World Trade Center was accepted on April 26, 2001, and closed on July 24, 2001.
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Not to make too fine a point of it, but this sounds like a case of total corruption imploding in on itself. A 99 Year lease is totally daft anyway, unless the building is stone and mortar.

A 20 year lease would have at least have had some legal standing, but that is too uncorrupt an idea to even be considered.

I assume all the entities involved are hypercorrupt NYC entities, by defult.

The

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center

and all dependant and closely related and dependant subpages need to fully reflect this.

As far as the entity losing money, at some level I am not superized.

There was a 1975 fire in one building that did damage, but as far as the Asbestos being in bad shape — that is overblown. Anyone that understands NYC corrupt building construction practices would tell you that it was a miracle that the buildings stood at all. They were severely overdesigned to cope with the hypercorrupt NYC building practices.

The BBC pages around 2001 seemed to indicate not that many empty floors or spaces — but I suppose it is possible to lease less than a full floor. I suppose all the floor by floor records were burnt … if you know what I mean.

As far as Enron evidence, any and all New York State judges are open to bribery and familial nepotism — I don’t see evidence being or not being an issue when normal corruption could fix the problem much cheaper.

Important considerations, but if you fully account for how corrupt the US is and how there is no rule of law there — these are at best modest conspiracy theories that are unimaginative and intellectually low-balled by people telegraphing them in.

If you’ve read a lot of Joseph Campbell (a guy who relished human sacrifice) you’ll be somewhat oriented to what you’re about to “receive”. Otherwise, buckle your seatbelt and remember the writing is soft pedaled. There are some simple grammatical mistakes that you can figure out because they’re repetitive.

Print the lot out, get your yellow highlighter handy, and make brief notes on every page you read so you can remember the names and terminology.

Am so pleased you are interested in it. You won’t regret reading it, I promise. Quite the hoot!