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...dread looking at Wall Street tomorrow. It's not going to be a pleasant sight," Senate majority leader Harry Reid said with a twisted smile, both hands gripping the top of the lectern on the Senate floor late Thursday evening, before a compromise plan passed by the House on Wednesday went down to predictable defeat on the Senate floor by a vote of 52 to 35 (failing to meet the 60-vote threshold to cut off a filibuster). The last time Congress failed to pass a bailout plan that most had assumed was a done deal, the Dow Jones industrial...
...looked like it might not come to that. After steadfastly refusing to negotiate in the beginning of the week on a plan they believed wouldn't force the Big Three to seriously restructure, Senate Republicans, led by Bob Corker of Tennessee, engaged in a marathon session of talks. By late in the day, it seemed like they might be amenable to a plan that would involve the automakers slashing their debt by March 31 and forcing the United Autoworkers Union to accept wage cuts that would put them on par with employees of foreign automakers, which operate plants...
...hedge-fund industry. She recently sent a letter out to hundreds of hedge funds berating them for their large fees and for halting client redemptions when funds were down. "I am appalled and disgusted by the activities of a number of hedge-fund managers," she wrote in late November...
...Millionaire Fair late last month, even the glare off the hood of a $250,000 Wiesmann MF4 supercar could not blind a visitor to the fact that there was far less interest on both sides of the cash register. A glitzy show designed to part Russia's well-to-do from their cash, the fair is usually spread out through three halls in Moscow's Crocus Expo center - this year it took up only two. With fewer vendors and wider aisles between the stands, the small number of visitors seemed even more sparse. "There are much fewer people this year...
...Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups - including the terrorists who attacked Mumbai - as a way of keeping India at bay, and Pakistan continues to protect the Afghan Taliban in Quetta. In his initial statements, Obama has seemed more sophisticated about Afghanistan than Bush. In an interview with me in late October, Obama said Afghanistan should be seen as part of a regional problem, and he suggested that he might dispatch a special envoy, perhaps Bill Clinton, to work on the Indo-Afghan-Pakistani dilemma. Clinton seems a less likely prospect since his wife was named Secretary of State. The current...