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...think it would be bad for the mortgage market to get rid of them completely," said Kanjorski, who also spoke at the conference on Friday morning. "But if they were smaller, perhaps next time we won't be in the situation where these firms are too big to fail." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Fannie and Freddie: Chief Says Government Ownership Is Bad | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...result is a reform plan that's clearly had a lot of thought put into it, and responds to many of the most obvious failings of our financial regulatory setup, but doesn't really change the way the financial game is played. The Federal Reserve would have more power to snoop around financial institutions that it thinks pose a systemic risk, the FDIC would get the power to take over and wind down non-banks, most over-the-counter derivatives would be forced onto exchanges, and capital requirements would be ratcheted up across the financial system. But the current alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Obama's Financial-Reform Plan Bold Enough? | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...trial on June 16, when the former AIG chief executive took the stand. AIG's lead attorney, Ted Wells, said that Greenberg and other members of Starr's board of directors had broken an agreement not to sell their AIG shares. (Read "How AIG Became Too Big to Fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenberg on the Stand: Is the Ex–AIG Chief Lying? | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

That palliative safety-valve quality of sleep may be hampered when we fail to reach REM sleep or when REM sleep is disrupted, Walker says. "If you don't let go of the emotion, what results is a constant state of anxiety," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wish Fulfillment? No. But Dreams Do Have Meaning | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

Being Nice to Be Nasty It makes you wonder, is Ross really serious about dialogue with the mullahs? "He favors a pro forma attempt at negotiations with Iran, followed by far more severe sanctions or even military action if and when they fail," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer who is now a professor at Columbia University. The Iranians, too, seem to smell a trap, telling European diplomats that they fear that the U.S. is extending a hand to Iran only in an attempt to build a united coalition against them when talks fail. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Contain Iran's Nuclear Ambitions? | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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