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Will the ECB begin to act more like the U.S. Federal Reserve and cut fast and deep? While it has flooded European markets with cash in recent months in an effort to revive the interbank lending market, it has not engaged in the purchase of assets from banks like the Fed. Trichet said the ECB has the power to do so, but is not showing his hand...
Unlike its Japanese rivals, GM saw its sales decline begin way back at the beginning of the year, when its truck-heavy product lineup began to sag in the face of higher gasoline prices. So for the first 11 months of 2008, GM's sales have fallen 21.9%. While that is comparable to Ford and Chrysler (down 20.6% and 27.7% respectively), it's far worse than Asian competitors. Toyota is down 13.4% this year, Honda has declined just 5.4%, and Nissan has shrunk by 9.1%. They will be far better positioned to rebound once the market recovers...
...April, we announced that planning for House renewal would begin and that the entire process will stretch perhaps a decade or more. Dean Hammonds is leading planning related to program considerations through the work of five subcommittees, two of which will be made up solely of students. The subcommittees will consider issues of residential living spaces, the purpose of House life, and the need for academic and social spaces within a House...
...first time the President and his Sunni and Shi'ite deputies in the presidential council have publicly chastised Maliki over the tribal gatherings. In late November, they demanded that Maliki suspend the pro-government groups until their legality could be determined. "For us to begin today to form councils paid for by the national budget to assume a role that has no known institutional or legal place, this is a situation that needs a serious pause," the council said in a statement posted on its website. The Prime Minister's critics say the so-called Support Councils are a blatant...
...Palin made election-eve appearances to support him, echoing his position that winning the state would not only stymie the Democratic majority in the Senate, but would help rebuild a battered G.O.P. "It takes rebuilding," she told an audience of 3,000 in Augusta. "And I say, let that begin here in Georgia tomorrow...