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Clearly a student of the history of momentum in politics, Geithner decided to strike while the iron was hot. He and hapless Fed chairman Ben Bernanke went before Congress. Geithner, who was supposed to be unemployed last week, aimed high. He asked that Treasury to be given the power to essentially liquidate large non-bank financial institutions. The department would have the ability to seize a company like AIG, sell its assets, and manage its business to do as little harm to the global financial system as possible. All of this would be accomplished using taxpayer money, but there...
...funds and other public and private bodies through guaranteed investment contracts and other products that protect participants in 401(k) plans. "We have no choice but to stabilize [it] or else risk enormous impact, not just in the financial system but on the whole U.S. economy," said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...character in a book, there was acting and the stage - and a generation of British actors to whom those were the only things that mattered. On any given night in the small provincial theaters of Britain of the 1960s, you might catch the likes of Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave or Patrick Stewart plying their trade. All were born or grew up during World War II, many in northern English counties known for their booming diction, and all shared the same obsession. Says Stewart, 68: "All we wanted to do was be on the stage doing great...
...program in the fiscal 2010 budget, a highly unusual move that would strip the bill from the usual committees of jurisdiction and give the program immunity from filibusters in the Senate. "I want them to having hearings. I want to lay it all out and look at it," Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, said on Tuesday in explaining why he opposes the idea...
...ended with AIG posting a $61.7 billion fourth-quarter loss, the largest quarterly loss in corporate history. (If it is any consolation, senior managers in the financial-products division will make about 43% less in 2008 than they did a year earlier, according to the company.) As Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke put it, "It makes me angry. I slammed the phone down more than a few times discussing AIG. I understand why the American people are so angry. It's absolutely unfair...