Wall Street Bonuses Up Sharply By 17 Per Cent In 2009; American Confidence Down Sharply By 19 Per Cent In February 2010

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And lending by the U.S. banking industry fell 7.5 percent in 2009, the largest annual decline since the 1940s.

Header: By 1980, this large estate in exclusive Hillsborough, south of San Francisco, was abandonned for the next almost twenty years. It has now been fully restored, and is the site of San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, and other 'charity' 'social' functions.