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...hurting because he has such a capacious cushion to fall on. His grace in motion isn't exceptional, but he could medal in Segway. There's a perfect meeting of actor and character in one little scene when Paul discovers Amy and the other hostages in a small bank: instead of busting in like an action hero, he just naturally traverses the winding maze of a roped waiting area...
...What cannot be said in an address is that there may not be a solution to the current crisis because nothing tried so far has worked to even a modest extent. The plan that the U.K. has introduced to guarantee bank debt and buy up private debt may help that economy. If so, the process behind it is portable and can be moved to other nations...
...What's more, to get many of these deals done, the FDIC has had to swallow the banks' riskiest assets. The FDIC now owns $15 billion in bank loans and other troubled debts, up from about $300 million at the end of 2006. In its most recent deal to sell California-based IndyMac to a group of private-equity investors, the FDIC agreed to shoulder as much as 75% of the bank's $16 billion lending portfolio in order to close the deal...
...Observers say that higher-than-average FDIC losses are a function of the market, not the FDIC's dealmaking prowess. Sources close to the IndyMac sale said there were only a handful of submitted bids, not all of which were to buy the whole bank. And while the FDIC has had to take on some troubled assets, the agency has retained just 4% of the assets of the banks that have failed. That's far less than what it has had to retain in the past. In the S&L crisis, the FDIC was on average swallowing nearly...
...Merkel's win in one of Germany's biggest states, a financial center and home to the European Central Bank, puts wind in her sails as she campaigns on behalf of her party and for her own re-election in September. Gerd Langguth, a political scientist and Merkel biographer, says the Hesse result means Merkel's return to the Chancellery is assured. The real question is whether Merkel will be able to form a coalition with the FDP or continue the so-called grand coalition with the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), he says. "Merkel believes that it would...