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...billion in the first three months of the year alone. But Gradante says things really unraveled in the past month or so, as investment banks, feeling a capital pinch, started to require that hedge funds pay back their loans. The funds typically borrow money to buy stocks or bet against them in order to increase their returns. Hedge funds were then forced to sell their positions, often at a loss, in order to pay back what was owed. What's more, many investors began getting nervous and pulling their money out of the funds. Those redemptions have forced managers...
...McCain's best bet is to ignore all the advice he is getting about what he needs to accomplish and how he should comport himself: don't try to be all things to all strategists. Instead, he should say what he truly believes about his own proposals, about Obama's qualifications and about the challenges the country faces, without an overly crafted strategy. His debate performances have improved, and he is always his most likeable - and most formidable - when he uses his head and speaks from the heart. To slightly tweak the wise old song, dignity is just another word...
...need to be effective. Following the British bailout, the three British banks will now have capital ratios above 9%, by the most important measure, well above international minimum requirements - "a level that should put them on a strong footing for the future," the Treasury reckoned in a statement. Having bet big, the government, for one, will be hoping that stronger future arrives soon...
...mega-investor Warren Buffet, who called the bailout "the right thing" for Congress to do, had just bought a huge stake in Goldman Sachs. These are clear signs that the big money-men are likely to turn the bailout to their own profit. Banks and firms that bet on paper securities not backed by real assets should be left to die on their own swords. Sivaswamy Mohanakrishnan, Auckland...
...will, no purpose, no power. Yet Europe will get out of this mess by being Europe: by bickering, compromising, doing less than required, and doing it slowly. Americans underestimate the Old Lady's moxy just as Europeans underrate Yankee vitality and ingenuity. Still, it's a reasonable bet that the U.S., one nation with one government, will emerge from the wreckage sooner than the E.U. does...