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...week later, Obama proposed new restrictions on big banks, aimed at limiting their size while prohibiting them from playing the markets with their own cash. "If these folks want a fight," he thundered, "it's a fight I'm ready to have." In case anyone missed the point, Obama used the word fight or fighting 22 times in a speech the next day in Ohio. (See judgments of Obama's first year, issue by issue...
...billion plan to tax the riskier liabilities of larger financial firms, Geithner hosted a dinner for bankers. A few of them grumbled about Big Government, class warfare and the unfairness of scapegoating financial institutions that already repaid their bailout money while GM and Chrysler keep hemorrhaging taxpayer cash. But one midsize-bank CEO suggested the tax was a reasonable surcharge on too-big-to-fail conglomerates that benefit from an implicit guarantee of federal help in a crisis. "If I fail, the FDIC shuts me down," he said. Then he gestured at a big-bank CEO. "If he fails...
...that Obama's belated push for the Volcker rule and other add-ons will require new hearings and more delay, and that its line-in-the-sand approach to the consumer agency is a formula for gridlock. Meanwhile, in the post-Massachusetts political climate - and with so much industry cash sloshing around in Washington - centrist Democrats seem to fear getting tagged as Obama liberals more than they fear getting tagged as Wall Street water carriers. And the White House would rather see reform blocked by Republican recalcitrance it can exploit at the polls than watch another round of interminable horse...
...past, she still calls the sum "staggering." Policymakers in Beijing are clearly concerned. Since December, they have introduced a series of steps to cool down the housing market and restrict access to credit by, for example, reintroducing taxes on certain property transactions and raising the required level of cash that banks have to keep on hand in an effort to reduce new lending. (Read "Foreign Luxury Cars: Picking Up Speed in India...
...with emphasis on safety and on the environment." Nevertheless, Toyota faces significant challenges from both Volkswagen AG and a re-emergent General Motors Corp. as it struggles to keep its standing as the world's top automaker. Both Volkswagen and GM are in a better position to cash in on growth in key emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group. (See pictures of American muscle cars in movies...