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Under the previous Administration, small banks complained they did not get the same access that large banks got to TARP funds. Some 600 small banks have filed applications to get financial-rescue funds, and they are still waiting for a response from Treasury. And that has driven up the resentment of large banks by their smaller competitors. "There is no future for the miserable eight," says Rusty Cloutier, the CEO of MidSouth Bank, a community bank in Lafayette, La., referring to the nation's largest banks. "No one is dealing with that. We can keep pumping money into them...
...This dog love has also driven a flourishing industry. Most dog owners bought presents for their canine companions this holiday season, churning $5 billion into the American economy. For those with dogs wanting to bring in the New Year in style, the Ritzy Canine Carriage House in Manhattan offered a “Presidential Suite” for dogs at a cool $175 per night...
...this. Grave threats require swift action and dauntless courage, as my recent actions have demonstrated. But the path to victory often lies in persuasion of another kind, and any knight worth his armor must fight with his mind as much as with his hand. These enchanters will not be driven out until we have good schools to educate children in the virtues of valor and grace; good doctors to keep bodies fit for work, whether this be threshing the fields or engaging in knight errantry; and good technology to keep our shores green, so that verses may be written extolling...
...auction market, of course, has its own unique calculation, driven as it's said by the incalculable "price of two people's desires." Surprisingly, the only disappointment on Monday was that a late Cubist work by Picasso - Musical Instruments on a Table, which had the highest presale estimate, of some $30 million - went unsold. The Saint Laurent-Bergé auction continues on Tuesday and Wednesday with the sale of rare furniture and antiquities, including two Chinese animal heads that Beijing says were pilfered and must be returned to China. Earlier on Monday, a Paris court rejected China...
...Unfortunately, few of the stories are so unambiguously amusing. A distressing number recount long periods of time in which the only person to contact the poster was his or her mother, clumsily discovered affairs, and the experience of getting laid off—often after having driven through a snowstorm to reach work on time. With consumer confidence plummeting after a month in which the U.S. lost nearly 600,000 jobs, this is a site for the recession.The site’s essence, then, lies in evoking the mindset of adolescence. Sometimes this is literal—a primary cause...