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None of this means we won't see sharply rising unemployment and falling economic output in the coming months as we work off the financial excesses of recent years. Higher productivity makes higher economic growth possible; it doesn't guarantee it. What's more, a financial breakdown can trump long...
On Oct. 12, for example, Bair was locked in meetings with Paulson and Tim Geithner, head of the New York Federal Reserve, trying to cut a deal that would get the money flowing to the big banks but would also generate enough in insurance premiums to protect the FDIC and...
But her demands for more money suggest that, as Bair told TIME, "more banks will fail." The FDIC's list of troubled banks jumped from 90 to 117 in the second quarter and will surely grow again. Bair is worried about all the new responsibilities her agency is taking on...
At home, agricultural employment today, at less than 2% of the labor force, is markedly smaller than what it was, and though sectors like the car and financial-services industries have been hit hard by the current downturn, none is nearly as sick as agriculture was throughout the 1920s. And...
The problem is that other moves the government has made to render bank debt safer has had the unintended consequence of making Fannie and Freddie's bonds less safe by comparison. So Fannie and Freddie's investors have to be compensated for the increased risk. In particular, traders say, the...