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...nation's premier experts on the financial world, Peter Spencer, chief economic adviser to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, said that the time to save the U.K. from severe GDP contraction may have come and gone. According to The Daily Telegraph, The Government and the Bank of England have got "days not weeks" to take action to revive the economy or face a prolonged depression...
...FDIC's chief job is to provide insurance on bank deposits. That means when a bank fails, it is up to the FDIC to guarantee that you'll get at least that much of the money you had in your checking account or savings account or certificate of deposit. It does this by seizing a bank when it fails and selling it off whole or in pieces, typically to another bank, for as much as it can get. The difference between what the bank sells for and how much is still owed depositors is the FDIC loss and comes...
...coalition of businesses and trade unions with interests in the aviation community, says additional capacity will be needed further down the line. "The U.K. needs to fight in the global market like any other country, and that market has gotten a lot tougher recently," says Baroness Jo Valentine, the chief executive of London First, a lobby group that campaigns for investment in London. Other advocates point out that the $13 billion expansion is vital to help Heathrow stay ahead of rival hubs in Paris, Frankfurt and Madrid, and that it will create 65,000 new jobs...
...surged to TV prominence and Beltway influence since being tapped as NBC's political director in 2007. For millions of NBC and MSNBC viewers, Todd's analysis of election arcana, especially during the drawn-out Democratic primary, was an invaluable guidebook on the campaign trail. Recently named NBC's chief White House correspondent, Todd has written a book on the race along with NBC's Sheldon Gawiser, How Barack Obama Won. He spoke with TIME about where the media's election coverage went wrong, how bloggers make him nicer and why his famed facial hair isn't going anywhere...
...momentum to take control of Gaza City and decapitate Hamas. Most vocal in advocating this option is Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish front runner in the race for Prime Minister, who will portray any outcome that leaves Hamas intact in Gaza as a failure - bad news for his chief rivals, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni...