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...Read a TIME story on why the government won't let AIG fail...
There's an uproar about whether the government should let AIG fail, a debate re-energized by the latest revelation of bonus payments going to AIG's executives. In fact, there's a good case to be made that AIG should fail, and it has nothing to do with bonuses...
...sometimes dubbed 'Franconia's Obama' doesn't seem daunted by his new job, even as Germans sink into a period of national soul-searching. "Let's not kid ourselves, we're in the middle of a tough crisis, but we've now got a very good stimulus plan," Zu Guttenberg told Germany's Bild newspaper recently. "We expect the economy will pick up this autumn, at the very latest." The next few days will decide whether Opel will be part of that resurgence...
Lowell also enforces interhouse dining restrictions, and during opera season won't let anyone who is not a Lowellian eat there, which sucks. (As an aside: we at FlyBy think interhouse dining rules are the best real-life example of what Mankiw taught you in Ec 10 about the evils of trade restrictions. So far Lowell, Adams, Kirkland, Winthrop, Leverett, Eliot and Quincy have rules keeping people out. If you somehow manage to have friends in the 11/12 of Harvard that doesn't live in your house, you're screwed when 6 p.m. rolls around. Who gains from this insanity...
...ones he really, really needed - and that no pork would fatten his budgets once he got past the $410 billion omnibus spending bill with its 8,570 earmarks. By promising higher standards for hiring, tighter controls on spending and greater transparency in execution, Obama set himself up to let people down. Consider Orszag's March 10 trip to Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Finance Committee. Senators are intrigued by Obama's proposed 10-year, $634 billion "down payment" on health-care reform, but Orszag pointedly avoided going into detail. "You will not be receiving definitive answers from...