Word: argumentativeness
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...other argument against excess regulation is that if the capital markets are prevented from efficiently trading and creating capital, then they do not really exist as capital markets any more. With the economy in such tough shape discouraging traders from creating liquid markets or the credit default swaps market from efficiently insuring risk may do more to hurt a system that is trying to build new capital more than it helps...
...Lost in the argument about why there was not risk management in place when a bank like Citigroup moved to the brink of collapse was the fact that Citigroup had a committee of its board of directors charged with monitoring the risks taken by the bank. Citi also had an army of risk managers who probably reported to an executive who also ran a part of the company that was taking risks. Of course, it is fair to assume that the bank also had a chief financial officer who had an excellent idea of what Citi had on its balance...
...real question is, Are we going to have a huge deficit with investment or a huge deficit without investment?" said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, emerging from the meeting. "Those are my words, not [Obama's], but I'm kind of summarizing what the argument is here. If you eliminated his investments, you'd find the deficit would still be 80% or 90% of what it would be otherwise with his investment." In other words, since Washington is going to rack up massive deficits, it may as well go all in and get some long-term bang...
...Whether that kind of argument will convince fiscal conservatives and deficit hawks in Congress remains to be seen. Obama's visit to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue came as the House and the Senate budget committees each introduced their own version of the bill, and less than a week after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the 10-year shortfall would be $2.3 trillion greater than the White House's more rosy projections. Both chambers delivered on their recent promises to make sizable cuts to Obama's budget resolution, which is more of a blueprint for future spending than...
...been biased against him. While being held at the Taipei Detention Center, Chen has been drawing public attention to his cause through extended hunger strikes, writing poetry, and publishing his memoir. And some, including Chuang Rui-hsiung, a criminal procedure lawyer in Taipei, agree with the former leader's argument. "People should be treated innocent until proven guilty," Chuang says. "They shouldn't treat Chen differently." Chen's loyal supporters also believe that his case has been politicized...