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The run on FDIC funds is raising questions about how well the agency has contained the costs of the credit crisis. Bank failures are not of the FDIC's making: the Federal Reserve failed to rein in mortgage-lending, while regulatory agencies like the Office of Thrift Supervision allowed banks...
But the most recent round of bonuses at some of the nation’s most moneyed corporations has not escaped the notice of the Obama administration, which has ordered average compensation reductions of 50 percent at seven of the largest recipients of federal bailout funds. The cuts will affect...
The list touches upon professions that run the gamut from politics to choreography. This year’s list includes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin, activist...
Rod Blagojevich is still campaigning. Despite his fall into the seventh circle of ignominy - perhaps you heard he was impeached as Illinois governor and faces federal corruption charges after allegedly auctioning off Barack Obama's empty U.S. Senate seat - Blagojevich is passing a crystalline afternoon pressing the flesh at a...
Still, he doesn't make it easy on himself. In April, Blagojevich volunteered for the NBC reality show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! When a federal judge squelched the idea, Blagojevich sent his wife Patti to gobble tarantulas instead. Later, in the summer, the fervent Elvis...