If all else fails, you can take it up with the regulator - the Reserve Bank of India.

BBC: India's middle class struggles with personal debt burden

While China keeps tight control on flows of capital in and out of the economy, short-term speculative investments often take place under the radar, and the central bank typically soaks up extra cash by using so-called liquidity operations.

WSJ: Investors Seek Clarity From People's Bank of China

And when she needed help, who stepped up -- his grandmother, waking up every morning before dawn to take that bus to that job at the bank.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

If you like to eat in the company of the glitterati and you've got the bank balance to back you up, take your meat-loving self to Prime One Twelve (112 Ocean Drive).

CNN: Sample the culinary treats of Miami

What won't stimulate the economy in the short term is the creation of a Small Business Bank since that will take some time - perhaps 18 months - to set up.

BBC: What is Vince Cable's 'Plan V'?

"The sheer pent-up demand ... is about to take hold, " President Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was quoted as saying in a speech Tuesday.

NPR: Stocks Tied To The Consumer Are Hot. Maybe Too Hot

In the euro zone, the unique institutional arrangements, not least a robustly independent central bank whose ability to support governments is severely constrained, has forced crisis countries to take up-front action to address their fiscal deficits and structural economic weaknesses.

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