Word: bankes
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...hopes of encouraging their returns. Beyond his desire to be with his family, Posavec said his Harvard degree is in higher demand back home than in the United States. “Back home with a Harvard degree you can pretty much get a job anywhere in any bank,” Posavec said...
...sinkholes like Citigroup and AIG that have been deemed too big to fail, and Geithner may have a hard time persuading it to pony up hundreds of billions of dollars more if necessary, as he said on Tuesday it might be. When the Administration rolls out its more detailed bank-bailout plans in the next few weeks, Geithner will have another chance to salvage his reputation as a salesman. But the truth is, if the plans fail on their own, it won't be Geithner's tone of voice or his demeanor that brought him down, no matter what...
...Take Allied Irish Banks. The country's biggest lender revealed this week that its pretax profit dropped 62% in 2008. The bank's share price slid 90% last year. In any other country, worried customers would already be queuing to withdraw all their money. But so far Ireland has avoided a run on its banks, thanks largely to the government's decision in October to guarantee deposits in six Irish banks, as well as those in five foreign institutions, for two years. The Irish guarantee was heralded in some quarters as a model solution for restoring confidence, with several...
...laid bare some ugly home truths - scandals indicative of a boom-years culture of nepotism and scant regulation that some say is as much to blame for the nation's economic malaise as the global downturn. In December, it emerged that Sean FitzPatrick, the then chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland's third largest bank, had concealed from shareholders more than $100 million in personal loans by transferring them temporarily to a building society. After FitzPatrick quit, the Irish government stepped in to nationalize Anglo Irish, but the damage to public confidence had already been done...
...state's insurance commissioner, but at HHS she will oversee a massive organization with 10 operating divisions. Orszag must focus on the entire government budget. The head of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers, who has taken a particular interest in health care, has a portfolio that ranges from bank bailouts to global financial regulation. The other legislative, political and managerial staff at the White House spend their days stretched over dozens of subject areas. In this chaotic situation, DeParle will be charged with never letting health care get off track. (Read "Who Will Push Health-Care Reform in Place...