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1. What is Citi getting? Specifically, the government will back a $306 billion pool of troubled loans and securities largely related to the foundering residential and commercial real estate markets. After Citi absorbs the first $29 billion in losses on these securities, the government - first the Treasury Department and then...
The current shift toward a more powerful state in the U.S. will never go as far as India's License Raj. But there is no reason to believe that this current crisis of capitalism won't end up the same way as all of the others - with a renewal of...
Although the trends are encouraging on the whole, some of the details of the data are knottier, highlighting gaps in access to health care. Cancer incidence was highest in black men, for instance, compared with men of other races. Among women, overall incidence was highest in white women, in whom...
After a great deal of pressure from the U.S. military, the Iraqi government this month finally took charge of paying the salaries for the 54,000 SOI in the Baghdad area. (Abdallah's group remains on the U.S. payroll.) In early November, 3,000 SOI were inducted into the police...
The news from China in recent weeks has been dire. Strikes and protests - some of them violent and involving as many as ten thousand people - are reported almost daily. Millions of workers are being thrown out of their jobs, and economic indicators seem to presage more gloom, with electricity production...