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...hoped to have a voice in the process, forming an Ad Hoc Ad Board Committee. But Donald H. Pfister, chair of the Ad Board Review Committee and a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, told Sundquist at the time that he was not willing to consider the Council’s input on the issue...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC, Students Discuss Ad Board Reforms | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...situation is somewhat different - delay is not an option. Accounting standards require financial institutions to routinely write down the value of assets to reflect their actual value. As a result, U.S. banks have booked massive losses, and the government has been forced to aggressively engineer ad hoc bailouts and mergers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons From Asia's Last Meltdown: Act Fast | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...this took place a day after many of the world's major stock indices had experienced their largest percentage point drop since the October 1987 crash. American investors, it seems, are still worried about what may be on financial companies' balance sheets. The ad-hoc nature of the European response to its banking crisis has also raised concerns. Investors were clearly worried that even if a global financial meltdown is averted, a broad recession may be inevitable. And so, as governments attend to one crisis, the markets discover another to fret about - and the cycle of panic continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Crisis: When All News is Bad News | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

European bank stocks continued to take a beating on Tuesday following a series of ad hoc steps by national governments to try to shore up confidence in financial institutions. By the day's close, Britain's troubled HBOS was down 41.5%, and the Royal Bank of Scotland's shares had lost 39% of their value; Germany's Commerzbank fell 14%, and Deutsche Bank was down 8.9%. The pummeling followed a black Monday in which stock exchanges across Europe dropped as much as 9%, suggesting that the markets were casting a doleful eye on the $700 billion U.S. bailout package passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...Federal authorities are going to keep doing whatever they can to keep the financial system from collapsing. Taxpayers will bear the risks and the costs of that, whether Congress votes to put them there or not. And it's possible - although nobody can know for sure - that this ad hoc approach will end up costing more than an up-front $700 billion bailout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Without a Bailout Plan, What Will the Cost Be? | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

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