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...front end of the process, the U.K. has essentially begun that nationalization of some banks. It will end up with a 70% share in RBS. The stunning part of the program is, according to Bloomberg, that the government will require aid recipients to sign "specific and quantified" agreements to lend, reflecting Brown's frustration at the failure of an October rescue to unlock credit markets. (See pictures of London's gathering storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The UK Moves to Bail Out Everything | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...traditional tariff is not the only tool governments are using these days to influence trade. More important perhaps is the financial support that states are offering to industrial firms to aid them in the global competition for a shrinking pool of consumer demand. Most obvious of these steps was Washington's $17 billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry. Now American steelmakers are lobbying the incoming Obama Administration to include "Buy America" provisions in the proposed government stimulus package, to favor their own steel over foreign imports. A state development fund in Taiwan is raising $6 billion to aid companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat of a Global Trade War | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...region where Monroe Doctrine is a dirty term. If Obama demonstrates that he's more interested in helping Haiti with green-energy projects like jatropha-seed oil than he is in making Bolivia eradicate more and more coca bushes, or more committed to steering U.S. aid toward micro-credit ventures for Mexican peasants than to building multibillion-dollar border walls to keep them out, it could go a long way toward making Latin America a more pro-yanqui messenger in places like the Arab world, where the foreign policy stakes are higher. "He's promised a historic change," says Saab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Looks for a Fresh Start with Obama | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...consequence of their downtrodden condition, the Rohingya don't have the kind of diaspora-based support groups that provide publicity and aid to some of Burma's other oppressed minorities. Their plight, though, may be a central issue at the next regional ASEAN Summit, which will take place at the end of February in Thailand. By then, observers hope the Thai government will employ different methods in tackling the problem. "Governments in the region need to put together a proactive plan to meet the needs of the Rohingya," says Garcia. "You can't literally make these people go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abandoned at Sea: The Sad Plight of the Rohingya | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...sponging up of all these toxic assets takes the discussion back around to what the government gets in return for such colossal aid. The largest American banks had market capitalizations of as much as $300 billion each two years ago. The purchase of bad assets when stock values were at those levels would have kept shareholder dilution at a reasonable level. The government would have gotten shares for taking the junk off bank books and putting it into its new "bad bank" agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building A $1 Trillion "Bad Bank" | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

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