Word: bankes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After serving half of a 14-year jail term, Sara Jane Olson, 62, member of the '70s radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army, was released on March 17. In 2002, Olson was convicted of trying to bomb Los Angeles police cars and for her role in a deadly bank robbery...
...Washington Every Country for Itself Despite a pledge not to enact new protectionist policies--which economists say could worsen the global recession--17 of the G-20 countries have implemented such measures in recent months, according to the World Bank. Individual nations' attempts to preserve jobs and industries through tariffs or subsidies "can lead to a negative spiral of events," according to the bank's president. In its report, the bank says 47 separate isolationist measures have been put in place since November...
...Billions in loans to GM and Chrysler--dubbed a "direct subsidy" by the World Bank...
SOURCE: WORLD BANK...
...Beijing Replacing the Dollar? In a sign of growing concern over the U.S. economy, the head of China's central bank proposed implementing a new currency-reserve system that could ease the country's reliance on the dollar. Experts say the move underlines China's desire to take a leadership role in the global response to the financial crisis. Still, few analysts expect the dollar to be replaced by what Zhou Xiaochuan called a new "supersovereign reserve currency" in the foreseeable future. China, which holds nearly $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, is the U.S.'s largest creditor...