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Stiglitz also criticized the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve for lending money to banks without a vision of what a stable financial system should look like or an acknowledgement of the danger of risk-encouraging incentives...
...previously taken the lead in blocking sanctions efforts, that role has now fallen to China, which has a rapidly growing stake in Iran's energy sector. Beijing believes that while Iran must be brought into compliance with the international nonproliferation regime, its nuclear program does not represent an imminent danger of producing nuclear weapons and diplomacy should therefore be given a lot more time...
...long history of court opinions shows that entirely reasonable Justices have disagreed about this question for many years. There is an obvious tension that open-minded people can easily recognize between freedom of speech and the danger of certain voices drowning everyone else out. On certain subjects, though, this court is not open-minded. Kennedy and his four conservative brethren saw only the principle that the Constitution is designed to limit government power. Faced with a Congress that had passed a law declaring who can say what about elected officials, and how and when, they squeezed the trigger...
...though, many new owners have been unable to meet their overly ambitious rent roll increase targets, and many of these investments are in danger of buckling under the high debt servicing costs. Finance industry watch lists are already full of private-equity-financed deals in danger of default. That has local officials scrambling to find "preservation buyers" who are willing to take on these properties with the expectation of a more modest 7%-8% annual return...
...region. They freed trapped survivors, delivered food and water, rebuilt roads and ensured stability. I witnessed no incidents of looting or other lawlessness when I was there in the days immediately following the quake. While there were safety concerns because of landslides and aftershocks, there was no danger of violence. "You do have a strong central government, a government that's able to support the people, and I think that makes a difference," says Rayyis. "Whereas in a place like Haiti, that's going to be a struggle. You're going to need a lot more external intervention." (See pictures...