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...where the pay can be three times as great and the hours a whole lot shorter. Only 3 out of 10 doctors in the U.S. now are PCPs, compared with 5 out of 10 elsewhere in the world. Those family physicians who remain find themselves in a constant money chase, meeting their monthly nut with the help of the revenue they make by prescribing tests - X-rays, CT scans, EKGs - that may or may not be strictly necessary but generate a lot of separate billing. (See 10 health-care-reform...
Despite those numbers, the banking system is no longer at risk of collapse. Megabank JPMorgan Chase, for instance, announced on Oct. 14 it earned $3.6 billion in the third quarter. Most of the institutions in danger are small. But those failures are straining the FDIC, which underwrites the nation's saving and lending by insuring deposits. When a bank fails, the FDIC makes up the difference between what's left and what's owed depositors, up to $250,000 per person per bank. Two years ago, the FDIC had about $52 billion in its deposit-insurance fund. Today that fund...
...dogs lived in Kabul's premier kite flying spot. And he does not find it at all strange that the de-mining headquarters shares real estate with the kite capital. "Kite flying is like de-mining, except you use your brain more than your hands," he says, striding to chase away a child throwing rocks at his cages. The kid bolted off, back into the kite-running fray...
...largest chunks of federal bailout money: Citigroup, Bank of America, AIG, General Motors, Chrysler and the financing arms of the two automakers. Salaries are expected to shrink 50% on average, with the majority falling below $500,000, though firms that have already repaid their bailout debts, like JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, are not affected by the change. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Currently resides in Chevy Chase...