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...Treasury is planning to pursue both direct infusions of capital and the purchase of bad assets to help clear the market. But outside observers already have qualms about a voluntary program. The consensus among experts seems to be that Treasury should shoot the wounded and let the surviving banks buy their assets. "There is no use in injecting equity into institutions that are basically insolvent," says Harvey. There's also what's known as the "lemons" issue: any bank that applies for funds might spook investors. The solution is to make all healthy banks participate...
...related to AIM. The nomads themselves are now under financial pressure - their number has dropped from 80 to 69 - and the remaining ones are pessimistic; at a June conference, they were asked how long they thought it would take before the market for new listings bounces back. The overwhelming consensus: not before the end of next year. "There'll certainly be an 18-month lull," says Nicholls...
...other subsidies that would come their way. Greg Barton, an equities trader with NWT Financial, was also optimistic as the trading day began, predicting a modest bounce by day's end. After the bounce fizzled at the close of trading, Barton said volatility remains because there's no real consensus which way the market is going. "When it's up, people want to sell. When it's down, people want...
...needs to appease China on every issue of importance.In contrast to the predictions of the Wolfowitz clique, East Asia has actually become one of the more politically stable regions of the world. The past three decades have seen the United States and China move closer and closer to consensus on a variety of major international issues, including the fight against terrorism, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and the importance of free trade. A new national missile defense system would send an aggressive signal to the Chinese government and threaten to reverse all the diplomatic gains of the past three...
...nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands, the West is offering Tehran incentives to forego certain activities - such as uranium enrichment - that it is legally allowed to pursue under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. "The flaw with the carrot and stick approach is that Iran's leaders - backed by wide consensus in Iranian society - view as a sovereign right the development of a civil nuclear program as they see fit, meaning any carrots designed as a swap for that are regarded as illegitimate as the disuasive sticks," Hourcade says. "Each side has come to see denying the other what...