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Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill praised the finance ministers of major industrial nations for pushing their financial institutions to go after the assets on the Administration's list. "They've all said, 'We'll do everything we can to help the U.S.,'" he says. "Serious money is being blocked now." Germany has frozen 13 accounts linked to the Taliban or bin Laden, although Darkazanli is the only one who appears on the Administration's list of 27. Britain has frozen $68 million in accounts of individuals and entities on the Administration's list...
...didn't have a backup site, another exchange would have taken over our trading," says Gambaro. "We'd be out of business." The exchange's temporary digs--surrounded by auto-body shops, garment factories and an elevated train--are a far cry from Wall Street. But trader Chris O'Neill, 33, is glad to be working, and says of his management: "They were well prepared for this disaster...
...That?s Alan Greenspan?s new part-time job. The task of the newly formed Air Transportation Stabilization Board, headed by the Fed head (or his representative) and rounded out by Treasury Secretary Paul O?Neill, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, and U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, is to figure out how to disburse those $10 billion in loan guarantees (essentially a government co-sign that allows banks to make bad loans to desperate carriers at reasonable rates). To decide which airlines get how much money at what rates, and what, if anything, they have...
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has announced that Treasury, the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Chicago Board of Options Exchange have launched a "full-fledged investigation" of the short selling. If the trades originated in the U.S., brokers may have records of who did the buying. But if they came from overseas, where buyers can hide their identities, they will be harder to trace. Last week regulators from Germany, Britain and other countries held a conference call to coordinate their inquiries. None has reached a conclusion...
...This crisis has been George W. Bush?s moment, Colin Powell?s moment, even Donald Rumsfeld?s moment. But while his cabinet colleagues and his boss swell in stature, O?Neill has only gotten smaller in relation to his increased importance - to the point of actually sharing the crisis-management spotlight with someone no longer on the government payroll...