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...that's all changing. Everyone's got a stake in getting human health right--whether families and individuals simply trying to stay well or governments trying to build a functioning health-care system that doesn't break the bank. With so much on the line, no one can afford to take options off the table...
...that too many people can no longer afford their mortgage. Maybe they took out an adjustable-rate loan that has reset higher, or they lost a job in the slowing economy. If we could stop the cycle of defaults and foreclosures, the thinking goes, we could prevent deeply discounted, bank-sold homes from flooding the market, keep losses from further impairing mortgage-backed securities and preserve property values. That's how we wind up with ideas like paying mortgage servicers to make loans more affordable and changing the bankruptcy code to allow judges to reduce the amount borrowers owe their...
Zimmer is the author of the forthcoming book The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution...
...late 1980s, an actor’s paycheck was directly proportionate to the height of his roundhouse kick, and Jean-Claude Van Damme stomped skull like he was trying to break the bank. But the era of the action star is long gone, and despite Van Damme’s prolific career over the last two decades, the Muscles from Brussels hasn’t made a memorable flick since his too-cool-to-be-cool turn as Guile in the movie version of popular 90s video game “Street Fighter.” “JCVD?...
...needed a victory. The GOP got some sound bites for 2010 if this doesn't boost the economy, but they looked obstructionist and negative." Still, if the $789 billion stimulus was a tidal wave, the next item on Obama's to-do list is a tsunami - a $2.5 trillion bank bailout. Fortunately for the President, little of that plan requires congressional action. Unless - or until - the Administration ends up needing more money for it, at which point no one will expect Congress to move as rapidly as it did this week...