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...Oddly absent from the discussion of how well Wells Fargo did is why the government was in the midst of testing bank balance sheets at all. The experts at the Treasury had been thrown off the scent and consequently had missed the fact that there was not need to test what is already working well. The same holds true for the Geithner plan to take toxic assets off bank balance sheets. It is academic now. What banks are earning from the difference between the cost of capital and the income from lending is now great enough for the banking system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Quickly Than It Began, The Banking Crisis Is Over | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...banks to lend. "The bottom line is that if this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China's hugely important export sector, "the bigger risk in China is of a 'W' shaped outcome," Wood says. In other words, after a brief, stimulus-driven spike, the economy will resume its downward track later in the year. Inevitably, growth will return. But Wood says a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Strong Enough To Save the World? | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Instead, the auto manufacturers, especially The Big Three, are showing up with paper and Styrofoam versions of their future models which will sit on linoleum floors. The most extravagant attractions, which were often better than the cars, will be completely absent. As The Wall Street Journal points out, "Chrysler LLC has eliminated its popular test track in the basement of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, for which it once trucked in tons of dirt, rocks and logs and where attendees could go for a short spin in a Jeep. " (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having a Wake at the New York Car Show | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Motley said that aggressive political talk was mostly absent from the event...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRC Trounces Dems in “Paintball Brawl” | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...that momentum on the battlefield. And the Pakistani brass faces the reality that after more than seven years of war, the Taliban has morphed and grown in ways that make turning it into a Pakistan proxy increasingly improbable. Still, despite the less forgiving posture of the Obama Administration and absent a resolution of six decades of conflict with India, Pakistan is not likely to change its orientation toward the Taliban anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Pakistan Toughen Up on the Taliban? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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