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...news from the bank sector, but there was bad news on another front that could undermine the surge. The second round of the Federal Reserve's attempt to restart the nonbank consumer-lending market, the so-called TALF program, went even worse than the faltering first round did last month. The poor performance is causing some Fed officials to doubt the entire premise of the effort to restart nonbank credit markets. "We know there are people out there interested in putting subscriptions together," says a Fed official, "but the larger question is, Where is the market [for them...
...York Federal Reserve says the second round of TALF lending amounts to just two issues for $1.7 billion in loans, divided roughly equally between auto and credit cards. The $1.7 billion is well below the $4.7 billion in loans from last month. Fed officials say they will return after the holiday weekend to try and get a sense of why the subscription was so light. (Read "Doubts Raised About Government Plan to Boost Consumer Lending...
...cost to Tayman? "Almost $9,800, all in," he said. As for revenue, he just sold his first display ad, for, well, the low three figures. But it's a start: "We've already reached ramen profitability." His math: he spends about $75 a month on server fees and other expenses...
...signaled that it is downsizing expectations about what can still be achieved: the principal goal now is to counter terrorism and bring a degree of stability to Afghanistan - not to turn a poor and fractious nation into a flourishing democratic state. When Obama laid out his new strategy last month, he made it clear that the mark of success would be the ability "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to prevent their return to either country in the future." But accomplishing even that comparatively limited objective at this stage will require a massive...
...that simple? Afghans like Khan say only a small fraction of the insurgency consists of hardened jihadis willing to fight to the death; the rest are ordinary, poor villagers who simply haven't been given a better option. Khan estimates that the insurgents earn from $100 to $200 a month, money that comes from the illegal trade in lumber. Similarly, analysts in Afghanistan's south, where U.S. and coalition forces are fighting an insurgency funded by the opium trade, argue that the U.S. policy of poppy eradication has only fueled the fighting by eliminating income without providing an alternative...