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...helped negotiate the forced sale of superregional Wachovia bank to Citi (only to see the deal, in an embarrassing turn, break down when Wells Fargo snatched up Wachovia instead). She got Congress to boost the ceiling on deposit insurance temporarily from $100,000 to $250,000. And in a move to bolster the FDIC's finances, she wants to double the average premium that banks pay to have FDIC insurance...
...growth will take place in developing nations, and our growth--and Western Europe's and Japan's--will largely be based on theirs. Do we understand these economies? And are we ready to compete for the business of the billions who live there and are just now starting to move up from poverty to life as consumers--consumers who would love to buy U.S. products because of their quality...
...Last month, when the government took control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and pledged to inject $200 billion in capital into the home loan guarantors, administration officials said the moves would make it easier and cheaper for people to get home loans. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked that way. Mortgage rates fell sharply after the move, but soon reversed quickly, and are now higher than they were before the Fannie/Freddie rescue plan was launched...
...problem is that other moves the government has made to render bank debt safer has had the unintended consequence of making Fannie and Freddie's bonds less safe by comparison. So Fannie and Freddie's investors have to be compensated for the increased risk. In particular, traders say, the move in the past week by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporary offer unlimited deposit insurance for non-interest bearing accounts and guarantee roughly $1.4 trillion in new unsecured bank debt has caused a rush of selling of the bonds of Fannie and Freddie. That's because the FDIC...
...McCain tried in the final debate to say that his own brand of change is good change. A tough move. The hardest thing in politics is for the incumbent party to run on change. Remarkably, it was at the end of the last debate when McCain remembered to mention that the Democrats have controlled Congress for the past two years...