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...time line? If it was simple ineptitude, it has nevertheless cost his boss, the President, considerable political and popular embarrassment. Geithner's job security may lie in the fact that the White House needs someone - anyone - with the right credentials to run the financial ship amid this storm. But adrift in an angry sea, Geithner is increasingly a troubled asset himself...
...going to have a global credit collapse," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and whose blog, Baseline Scenario, has become essential reading for crisis buffs. The Federal Reserve and Treasury left creditors at Lehman Brothers adrift in September, and the repercussions were so dire that regulators resolved not to let such a thing happen again...
...Sony, inventor of the portable music player and now known for digital cameras, LCD TVs and the PlayStation game machine, has stumbled in recent years. With demand for electronics collapsing as the world sinks into recession, the company finds itself increasingly adrift from its glory days, notwithstanding the Ichinomiya closure. Last week, Sony reported that it fell into the red in its latest quarter and repeated its forecast for an operating loss of $2.9 billion in the year ending March 31, its first such loss in 14 years...
...region suggest that Muzaffar's experience was not an isolated incident. A Jan. 14 story in the Jakarta Post said 193 Rohingya were rescued by Acehnese fishermen on Jan. 7 and are now being housed at an Indonesian naval base. The refugees there claim Thai marines also cut them adrift after destroying the engines on their boats, and they managed to stay afloat by erecting sails made of plastic tarpaulin. Survivors from a second wave of refugees "pushed back" from Thailand - a contingent of some 580 - have also made their way to India's Andaman Islands. It is not known...
...hurling books at the walls. Now she was tearing the tapestries down and casting them to the floor. Now she was smashing Roxanna’s mirror. She whirled and raged, blind, mad, adrift in the tempest of her own making...