Word: bankes
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...have - and then obviously the TARP bank bailout money - didn't happen under our watch, but we had to administer it. We then took on making sure that GM and Chrysler didn't collapse, because that would have potentially created additional fear in the marketplace at a time when the economy was most vulnerable. But that got advertised...
...Plumbing and Powerful Men For every Itay Zar (there are at least 100 hilltop settlements like his in the West Bank), there are thousands of Sharon Katzes in communities with plumbing and Little League. These suburban settlers make up the established West Bank colonies that Israel does not want to relinquish - in fact, would like to expand. So far, Netanyahu has not directly challenged Obama on the settlements, other than to say he won't stop "natural growth" (that is, houses for expanding families). Since the Israeli army is always skirmishing with radicals like Zar, giving up the occasional outpost...
...main thrust of the legislation is to take the consumer-protection responsibilities (and consumer-protection regulators) now housed at the Federal Reserve and other banking agencies and give them their own new home. In trying to balance the joint responsibilities of protecting consumers and keeping banks safe and sound (that is, profitable), bank regulators have in the past decade failed at both. So the idea is that if we create an agency with consumer in the name and a clearer focus, we'll have a better shot at protecting consumers from dangerous, deceptively packaged financial products and keeping banks from...
...premised on the idea that Washington is better at making financial decisions for all Americans than leaving that choice up to individual Americans," said Spencer Bachus, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee - whose top five 2008 campaign donors were UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, according to the Center for Responsive Politics...
...crude-steel production hit nearly 50 million tons - 6% higher than in the previous year, according to the World Steel Association, and close to an all-time high. "Demand has just exploded in the first half of this year as a result of the government's stimulus package and bank lending," says Jim Lennon, a Macquarie Bank analyst. "Steel demand is massive." (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...