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...reputations and fortunes of Andersen or Enron that policy people at say, the Treasury Department are worried about - it's that of accounting, and investing, in general. Speaking to (and well beyond) a group of life insurers Wednesday, Treasury undersecretary Peter Fisher bemoaned that the science of making gobs of money had advanced well beyond the science of telling investors "the riskiness of that firm's activities" - just how, exactly, a company was making those gobs of money...
...fear that the financial catastrophes of recent years will continue to haunt our financial markets and questions will continue to be raised about our system of investor-based capitalism on which our economy depends," Fisher said. And closing that "disclosure gap" - not preventing the next corporate implosion, but making sure investors get the warning signs as promptly as possible - with accounting- and disclosure-rules reform is now Washington policymakers' most important...
...Neill deputy, Peter Fisher, got similar calls from Enron's president and from Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary who now serves as a top executive at Citigroup, which had at least $800 million in exposure to Enron through loans and insurance policies. Fisher-who had helped organize the LTCM bailout-judged that Enron's slide didn't pose the same dangers to the financial system and advised O'Neill against any bailout or intervention with lenders or credit-rating agencies...
This is the plight facing Tom and June Fisher, a Cincinnati, Ohio, couple with three children. Though both Tom and June worked in an auto-parts factory, they still could not afford their rented trailer and had to move out. A state agency has placed the family temporarily in a motel room and pays part of the $45-a-night tab. June now cleans rooms in the motel, and Tom works in a sports bar. But it's a struggle. The family shares two double beds, a cot and one chair; toys and school books are stored underneath the beds...
...version of the 1937 "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), some that only seemed that way ("White Christmas"). "Annie Get Your Gin" spawned three top-10 songs but no #1's. His last charter was another secular spiritual, "Count Your Blessings" - #5 for Eddie Fisher...