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...commission's "penalty pilot" program, Schapiro said, has caused "significant delays" and forced staffers to negotiate penalties with SEC commissioners prior to negotiating with the actual company. This, according to Schapiro, discouraged staffers from arguing for penalties and "sometimes resulted in reductions in the size of penalties imposed" against public companies that harmed investors...
...actually President Obama who had led the world to believe Geithner would have more to say, declaring at his press conference last night that the Treasury Secretary would "be announcing some very clear and specific plans." And viewed through a longer-term lens, Geithner's don't-promise-much approach might turn out to be awfully smart. If one leaves aside the actual details of his not-all-that-detailed proposal, one of the most important jobs of a Treasury Secretary in troubled times like these is to instill confidence. Geithner's predecessor, Hank Paulson, was a believer in doing...
...contracts worth $20 million based on the debts of as many as 75 companies. Add the fees from the insurance contracts to the interest Strata was already receiving on its collateral and voila you get an annual yield for the bond of 4.93%, or more than double the actual bonds Strata held...
Just as curious, and ethically intriguing, is what gets written on that slate. For each job, an active is overwritten with a customized composite of the minds and memories of actual people. (Between tasks, the actives are creepily affectless tabulae rasae--like children or especially pretty, dumb actors.) Some of those people, like the voices on an old laugh track, are now dead. Which raises questions: What does it mean to be alive? What is the Dollhouse's obligation to the people whose memories it "resurrects"? Is Echo herself, Caroline or the sum of her borrowed parts...
...this staffer's account, during the transition, Summers, his deputy Jason Furman and the White House's top congressional liaison, Phil Schiliro, laid out the broad principles they wanted the bill to adhere to, but when it came to actual content, they deferred to the committee leaders. "Because otherwise what's the point in doing something, pie in the sky, if it doesn't have the votes?" the staffer says...