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...late-January meeting between Geithner and Fine could signal a change in policy. Some observers say that move would make sense. Bank analyst Meredith Whitney, who recently left Oppenheimer to start her own firm, has said the best plan to restart the financial system would be to give government money to smaller regional banks that could fill the lending void created by the pullback of larger ailing banks...
...don’t think a moratorium on acquisitions is the right move for a 50-year plan,” said Gordon...
Dominguez added that the move was part of a series of decisions to scale back on planned international expansions, though he said the other cutbacks had non-financial motivations as well...
Dolan, a St. Louis, Mo., native, is virtually guaranteed to rise to the rank of Cardinal in the next consistory - a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals - at the Vatican. Insiders expect that his first move will be to forge a more direct link not only with New York parishioners but with priests, who privately were among Egan's harshest critics. Still, because it involves New York City, the job is necessarily more than just simple parish work, ideally serving as something of a roving ambassador for American Catholicism and a bridge to every walk of life that exists...
...late. The party's chief vote counter whipped his colleagues into united opposition of President Barack Obama's stimulus plan. Taking on the relatively unpopular congressional Democrats is one thing, but flagrantly opposing a wildly popular new President is risky, especially when any payoff could take years. But the move energized the GOP for the first time in a long while, inspiring six Republican governors - all rumored 2012 wannabes like Cantor himself - to threaten to decline some of the stimulus money. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...