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...meantime, the public has loved watching the tension of big companies pitted against big government. Rich and famous bankers have been ridiculed in public. Some have lost their jobs. Hank Paulson, a well-built former Dartmouth football player and former head of Goldman Sachs and mild-mannered Ben Bernanke have been accused of manipulating a major decision by a public company, Bank of America's (BAC) decision about whether it should by Merrill Lynch, overriding the normal and legal corporate governance system. Put more simply, they broke a law in the name of saving the national financial system...
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking via satellite to a bank conference sponsored by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, said on Thursday morning that the stress tests "will allow, I hope, for greater confidence in the banks." But even though the stress tests are over, the banks and their investors are not out of the woods...
...changes at the banks over the next month. Top executives of Bank of America, Citigroup or Wells Fargo could be out of a job. The government may also decide it wants a much bigger stake in the banks than some are currently letting on. Maybe Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke are better at tying up loose ends than Steve Rattner and the Automotive Task Force, but odds are there more chapters to come in the big bank crisis...
...incredibly charismatic, and he has the right balance of substance and form,” says Nagaraj. “He’s got one of the most important qualities that entrepreneurs need to have: he’s a go-getter,” adds Roy I. Ben-Dor, another HBS student and mentor to Shah. Kendall says he has spoken to Shah once or twice about his program to compliment him on the site’s success. “It’s nice to see when high school and college students focus...
...Critics of the verdict - dubbed the "Hadschi Halef Omar ban" by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, in reference to a character invented by the popular adventure-story writer Karl May called Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawuhd al Gossarah - say it does not necessarily prevent long names, since it applies only to names conjoined by a hyphen. A name like Schulze zur Wiesche-Meyer auf der Heide would still be allowed, notes Götz, even though it's seven words long...