Prosecutors are zeroing in on e-mail traffic between the two men in which they fretted about the downturn in the mortgage market only days before telling investors all was well.
Caldwell then played a black-and-white video showing aerial footage of the house surrounded by date palms, crosshairs at the center of the screen zeroing in on the two-story concrete building.
But Mr Legrain has a gift for combining big numbers that offer a sense of the scale of the global build-up in things like household debt while zeroing in on what all this means for people like Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson, a proudly left-wing Icelandic carpenter and unlikely sometime property speculator.
But in an interview with Forbes, Korsmo made it very clear that among the issues regulators are zeroing in on is the way some charities handle the accounting of gift-in-kind goods, as donated materials are called.
The Commerce Department is attempting to operationalize the mathematical equivalence argument by making this tiny, rarely-ever-used exception the new rule so that it has license to engage in zeroing and inflate antidumping duty rates on behalf of certain domestic producers.
His distinguishing idea here is a focus on zeroing out taxes on manufacturing to help us become more competitive in this area with other countries and spur middle-class job growth and income mobility.