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...tore through the economy and wiped out billions in capital. The downturn accelerated in recent months as lenders spooked by steep losses and high-profile bank failures have tightened their purse strings. Worried that recent high-profile failures could spread and freeze financial markets, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. announced the plan now under consideration to bolster confidence in U.S. financial institutions. “PIMCO is ready to work for no fee in helping to manage a program that would assist in stabilizing the U.S. economy,” El-Erian said in an interview with the news...
...health care law in 2006, the Health Alliance was reimbursed by the state for the full cost of providing uncompensated services. But the hospital system is now only receiving 60 to 70 cents for each dollar of medical service provided, according to chief financial officer Gordon H. Boudrow, Jr...
...like making a mixtape,” Hogan says. Past festival curators have included rock bands Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, and Portishead, as well as filmmaker Vincent Gallo and Simpson’s creator Matt Groening. My Bloody Valentine’s selections include performances by indie mainstays Dinosaur Jr and Yo La Tengo, as well as psych-rockers Mercury Rev and Brian Jonestown Massacre.Hogan and ATP scheduled the festival’s other two nights. The first night features five artists each playing a full album as their set, including Built to Spill performing their celebrated 1997 indie rock...
...been a turbulent few weeks for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Jr. As a principal architect of America's economic policy, Paulson (known as Hank) helped orchestrate the Sept. 7 government takeover of mortgage institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the $85 billion bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) on Sept. 16. By the close of business two days later, he was reportedly looking to find a long-term solution to the nation's ongoing credit crisis, buoying markets on rumors that the Treasury would create some sort of government agency to absorb banks...
DIED Over a 22-year career, sculptor Tina Allen crafted more than a dozen sculptures, busts and bas-reliefs of black activists and leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, George Washington Carver and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps her best-known creation was a 13-ft. (4 m) bronze sculpture of Alex Haley, author of the 1976 novel Roots. Allen's art, displayed in public spaces across the country, continues to honor African-American leaders...