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Despite the stomach churning stock plunges, the situation with insurance companies simply doesn't compare with the failed banks, says financial analyst Barry Rabkin of Financial Insights, an IDC company. "They're solvent - solidly solvent" thanks to conservative investments and tight state regulator oversight. The big companies are "not going anywhere...
...Asia (with the exception, perhaps, of India), it is virtually unthinkable that an individual from a minority could rise to become a serious national leader. Whatever we may think of the U.S., of its hardly stellar handling of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, of its lack of oversight, restraint and thrift over the financial meltdown, the fact that a Barack Obama can overcome the disadvantages associated with being black and have a shot at the highest office in the land speaks volumes about the possibility of hope in America - a possibility that cannot be entertained in the same...
...thought would be a photo op with presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain to announce a bipartisan deal, but which turned ugly as House Republican leaders balked at an arrangement worked out with the Administration and Senate Republicans. The bill was renegotiated over the weekend, expanding Congress's oversight of how the money would be spent, putting some limits on executive compensation and removing some Democratic priorities that angered Republicans, such as funding for a controversial housing-advocacy group and a provision to help homeowners in bankruptcy...
...criticized outsourcing as designed to keep business “shielded from oversight and accountability...
...tuition when Harvard is seeing multibillion-dollar returns on its endowment?” asks the Facebook group page for Edward “Ned” L. Monahan ’12. The Facebook platform for Seth A. Pearce ’12 proposes “Student oversight on Harvard’s investments and shareholder votes,” as well as “supporting not only students, but also Harvard employees, and the residents of Cambridge and Allston-Brighton...