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...globe. Its banks, which have slowly rebuilt their balance sheets for the past decade, have been dinged but not crippled by exposure to the subprime mess. But Chinese government policymakers and financial CEOS are looking on in horror nonetheless, and asking themselves a fundamental question: what lessons should we learn from this debacle...
...abroad. There are trade barriers on what businesses foreign banks can go into inside China. And there are no derivatives markets. In an Oct. 21 speech in New York to a U.S.-Chinese business group, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson all but pleaded with his counterparts in Beijing not to learn the wrong lessons from "the mistakes we have made," and to continue liberalizing their financial system...
...doesn’t stop until the last play.The Boulder, Colo. native was not a part of a winning high school team. “We were at the bottom of the league,” Hanson recalls. “But I think it helped me to learn how to be a standout player and a team player at the same time. I’m just happy to be on a winning team.” In the first six games of his college career, Hanson has notched three turnovers, a fumble recovery, 21 tackles, six break...
...really big deal in the campaign, and even in American history,” said Sunstein, who was Obama’s colleague at the University of Chicago. Randall L. Kennedy, another Law School professor advising Obama, said he was “not surprised” to learn that Fried had chosen to support the Democratic candidate. Both Sunstein and Kennedy noted that Fried was a “thoughtful” member of the right whose views have always been more libertarian than conservative. Fried has, for example, supported keeping abortion services legal. Kennedy pointed not only...
...dropped his support since Palin joined the campaign.“It would have been a shrewd move if she hadn’t come out with all the inanities,” said Huchra, who recently donated to the Obama campaign. “The more we learn, the more we think she’s not competent. The key question for me becomes whether I would be a better vice president than she would.”Huchra criticized in particular Palin’s view on scientific questions, including teaching creationism in public schools, which he described...