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...credit markets, but in comparison to Tokyo, Washington has acted at warp speed. As Japan watcher Richard Katz points out in the latest Foreign Affairs, it took the Bank of Japan nine years to bring the interest rate that banks pay on overnight money to 0%; the U.S. Fed managed that in 16 months following the beginning of the credit crisis in the summer of 2007. Japan - in desperate denial about the plight of proud companies - long delayed using public money to recapitalize banks. The U.S. starting doing so within a year of the crisis's start...
...FDIC can wind down banks in a more orderly fashion than occurred at Lehman. But FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have both said they don't have the authority to wind down global financial conglomerates like Citi. The upshot: "If you want to have no more Lehmans, then inevitably you wind up guaranteeing the banks' debts," said John Hempton, a money manager and former Australian treasury official whose Bronte Capital blog has become another crisis must-read. That is, an orderly reorganization of the financial system in which creditors make sacrifices would be great...
...developed nation. Exports are plummeting, Japan's economy is contracting at double-digit rates and the country's industrial giants are reeling. Rarely has "stay the course" seemed so grossly inadequate as a solution, yet the LDP seems unable to mount a credible recovery effort, and the public is fed up with the bumbling half measures of party hacks. (Read "Sony's Woes: Japan's Iconic Brands Under Fire...
...will spend the rest of his life behind bars at a federal prison. The Bureau of Prisons decides where a criminal ends up, based on a formula and any special security needs. One possible spot is a medium-security facility in Otisville, N.Y. Often referred to as Club Fed, the prison is located 70 miles northwest of New York City and generally handles white-collar criminals from the Southern New York Judicial District...
...competence is to do what he's been doing: work. His appearances before Congress since the bank speech have been solid, and if those who only heard of him in the past month have a poor impression, those who watched him in his previous job at the New York Fed tend to believe he has the skills to meet the daunting tasks before...