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...there are other ways for Washington and Beijing to work together. In fact, it's happened before. The most effective sanctions ever levied against the North were those designed and imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department during the Bush years. Not only did Treasury manage to freeze a Macau bank account through which the North Korean regime allegedly laundered millions of dollars, but it also persuaded several large banks in China to stop doing business with North Korea. In 2006, Kim Jong Il made removal of those sanctions a precondition of returning to the so-called six-party talks...
...Afro-haired, fist-bumping "Angry Black Woman" that characterized her during the campaign. Brand Obama is what we saw, but we are no closer to understanding the kind of woman who dresses up to plant a vegetable garden or buys $540 Lanvin sneakers and wears them to a food bank. This is a good snapshot of how meticulously Brand Obama is executed but we are going to have to wait for an article that reveals the real Meaning of Michelle. Part of me actually prefers the Afro-haired, angry black woman. C. Stewart, LONDON...
...Stockholm Breaking the Bank for War Despite the global economic downturn, world governments spent $1.46 trillion on defense in 2008--a new record, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The U.S. continued to top the list, spending $607 billion to upgrade its armed forces--more than seven times the amount spent by China, which beat out the U.K. for the No. 2 spot for the first time...
...have as many people, so it's hard to keep up, ya know? We'll try to keep you intermittently entertained as you're chained to that desk, and figure we haven't hit it big enough yet to be blocked by your I-bank's servers. Also, we don't have real jobs, that pay, like, enough money to eat at Qdoba every day...soooo we have really nothing else...
...Bank regulators were willing to countenance those kinds of risks because their main charge was keeping banks healthy and profitable. A separate consumer agency would presumably be much tougher. It would also probably curtail financial innovation and keep some Americans from getting loans - as banking groups, who like the consumer agency idea least of all the Obama proposals, are already arguing. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's hard to imagine the financial crisis of the past two years being anywhere near as damaging if lenders had simply been banned from extending home loans to people...