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...which was nationalized on Thursday. After the British government used antiterror legislation to freeze Landsbanki assets (these laws were simply "the most efficient mechanism available," a Downing Street spokesman explains), Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde protested. "Not many governments would have taken that very kindly," he said. His counterpart in London appears unabashed. "We will take further action against the Icelandic authorities wherever that is necessary to recover the money," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown...
...unexpected turn. When the crisis intensified in mid-September, Washington acted quickly. There was a Treasury Secretary to devise and present a rescue plan, and a Congress - after an initial case of the vapors - to act on it. But there is no Hank Paulson in Europe, nor a precise counterpart to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Jean-Claude Trichet heads the European Central Bank, but it cannot play the lender of last resort, as the Fed did on Sept. 16 by loaning $85 billion to prop up the U.S. insurance giant AIG. In Europe, governments must act instead...
...Washington two years ago. It included Kashkari's boss, Anthony Ryan, 45, the acting Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, who's been in charge of keeping track of all the new debt taxpayers have assumed recently, including open-ended loans to financial institutions and companies. They joined Kashkari's counterpart at the Office of Financial Institutions, David Nason, 38, who has been overseeing the titanic nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the broad new program insuring money-market funds announced Sept...
...eyes was grand old Harvard on parade, splendidly arrayed in academic robes and bonnets, in all of its pomp and pageantry, installing its new president according to the customary prescription. Yet with a few derisive words about Harvard’s Puritan heritage from Drew Gilpin Faust and her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann ’71, that visible visible continuity—between the Harvard of the present and the past—was sundered...
Hundreds of students gathered in senior suites and House common rooms last Thursday to watch the showdown between Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. While many people—from students to pundits—were vocal in their opinions of the candidates’ performances, few have the inside view of Andrew Halcro, who ran against Palin for governor of Alaska in 2006. Halcro, who attended an executive education program at the Kennedy School in 2003 and another at the Business School the following year, served as a Republican member of the Alaska...