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...root cause of all this trouble is pretty simple. Banks and Wall Street firms made trillions of dollars in loans they shouldn't have - chiefly subprime home mortgage loans. Now they're having to write off the losses, and some of them no longer have enough capital (money available to cover losses) to get by. Complicating matters for both outsiders and Wall Streeters is the alphabet soup of derivative securities (CDOs and CDSs in particular) that now trade in far greater volumes than stocks. It's the interaction of derivatives markets, debt markets and the housing market that has proved...
...Financial Corp. for $4 billion in stock, adding "largest mortgage provider" to Bank of America's list of bragging rights and saving Countrywide from possible bankruptcy. With that purchase, Lewis became a kind of quasi-savior on Wall Street - the man who helped you stand when you could no longer do it on your own. If everything goes smoothly, the Merrill Lynch & Co. purchase - which some analysts called "too good an opportunity" to pass up - will make Bank of America into the nation's largest brokerage firm as well, and help Lewis to save yet another drowning company...
...Longer growing seasons in a warmer world may further worsen allergies. A study in September's Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported data from 1982 to 2001 showing that, for example, increasingly early pollination of the European olive in Spain led to higher overall pollen counts, similar to what is found in warmer parts of the Mediterranean; comparable outcomes can be expected in other temperate parts of the world as climate change kicks in. A similar effect will also be felt in the northward shift of what is known as the hardiness zones - meaning that northern countries where allergies...
...sure it won’t be—then mightn’t we at least trust motorists to cope with highly accurate and high-visibility cameras, placed nearly everywhere? We would save taxpayer dollars, reduce payouts to detail police workers and no longer have to rely on ceaseless human error. This plan worked for Great Britain and it could work for us, once we got over the incredible initial intrusion. My point is this: if America were really America today, I wouldn’t have received that speeding ticket. If, state of New Hampshire Police Department...
...third 7-5. “The weekend’s play was very encouraging,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “The main thing we’ve seen is that these teams are just stronger, able to go longer. We played great matches with them, they’ve just done it longer than we have.” Fish added that his players saw the sort of intensity they will have to bring to every practice. “It’s not just about being stronger...