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...know a lot about the drugs, and they suspect that physicians, like the general public, have an exaggerated idea about how dangerous steroids really are. The users themselves tend to be aware of side effects like liver damage, high blood pressure and behavioral changes. That's why most users inject the steroids instead of taking them by mouth, in order to better control blood levels and lessen the risk of liver toxicity. A majority of habitual users also get blood work at least once a year, probably to make sure the drugs aren't throwing hormone levels...
...moral hazard is a judgment we are making almost daily," he told the committee, referring to the danger that lending to banks in this way only encourages them to take risks knowing the central bank will bail them out. Speculation he was leaned on by the government to inject the cash got short change. "This operation was designed entirely in the Bank," he hit back. "I give you my personal assurance that I would not do anything unless I thought it was the right thing...
...meantime, just as central banks in the U.S. and euro zone have pumped cheap cash into money markets to boost liquidity in recent weeks, the Bank of England announced plans to inject almost $30 billion into the U.K. system after the credit squeeze nudged up the rates banks were charging each other to borrow. The longer those rates remain high, the more mortgage providers will be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners, increasing the chances of a consumer spending slowdown and a weakening economy. That prospect - and the dramatic half percentage point...
When this very dilemma toppled the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management and rocked global markets in 1988, Shleifer and Vishny were hailed as visionaries. Their paper helped spark a broader re-examination of the role of professional investors. Whereas professionals inject sophistication and expertise into markets, most of them are too busy trying to hold on to the money under their charge--or to their jobs--to keep things truly rational...
...wing blogger and radio talk show host, got more specific about what conservatives might object to in a CNN/YouTube debate - he alleged that CNN cherrypicked the submissions for biased questions that a "responsible" journalist wouldn't ask: "the CNN team used the device of the third-party video to inject a question that would have embarrassed any anchor posing it." One staffer for a Republican candidate now leaning toward not participating put it this way: "The problem isn't YouTube...