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...Many saw this civil case agreement as major signal that negotiations were moving fast on the criminal plea bargaining front, which may include Madoff's desire to keep his family out of trouble. Of course, Wednesday's revelation regarding Mrs. Madoff's financial withdrawals only raises the likelihood that prosecutors will look closely at family members' actions...
...close to Chávez concede privately that the corruption issue has hurt him. Perhaps that's why he recently warned supporters who have benefited from the oil boom that "this isn't a revolution of Hummers." As for the soaring crime rate, Chávez says that a major overhaul of the police and judiciary is coming. He'll have to hope that's enough to eke out a victory in a few days' time. "We will recognize the result, as we always have, whatever it is," he said last week. And if it doesn...
...homeowners (and many that were seeking to refinance existing mortgages) around 10% more in interest charges. Making home loans more expensive is not a great way to get the housing market moving - nor is it a great way to instill confidence in debt markets. The sell-off quelled a major rally in Treasuries as investors who had been flocking to the safe haven of government paper amid the global recession questioned whether Treasuries had become too expensive. In the last four months of 2008, yields (which decline as prices rise) dropped from...
...course, there are major differences between today's banking and monetary systems and those of the 1930s, but the one constant is human behavior. Personal balance sheets, corporate balance sheets and bank balance sheets will inexorably move into safer instruments given the wealth destruction that has occurred in riskier assets over the past year (and which will continue for the foreseeable future). If the banking sector alone were to move toward its more conservative 1935 ratios, then the increased demand for government paper from that source alone would be $700 billion...
...problematic in an academic setting. He said that many students wrote about final clubs in their journal entries for Sociology 155: “Class and Culture,” a course he taught in the fall. “Some people in [final clubs] wrote that the major benefit was networking for internships or jobs after school. Most wanted to disavow the fact that they were exclusive,” Nelson said. Students in the course don’t seem to dwell on the inclusion of final clubs. “I think that the listing of final...