Word: perfection
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...represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody...
...overhaul in 70 years, Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, has become the voice of ordinary passbook holders. Bair was front and center with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed boss Ben Bernanke when they announced plans to recapitalize the U.S. banking industry. But the three aren't always in perfect alignment. As guarantor of Americans' $4.5 trillion in deposits spread around in some 8,500 U.S. banks, Bair is trying to balance both the needs of depositors like the storied Mrs. Lobsiger and those of big-name players like Citigroup who help generate much of the economy's torque...
...billion Paulson just got from Congress, but Bair notes that in the past, the FDIC hasn't needed much. Even at the peak of the savings-and-loan crisis in the late 1980s, when thrifts were closing at the rate of one a day, the FDIC maintained its perfect record of returning every penny of every insured depositor's money, and Bair has preserved that record through 15 bank failures this year. That's partly because the FDIC by law gets to tap a failed bank's assets before any other creditors get a crack at the safe...
...What's more, a new "Adverse Market Fee" recently instituted by lenders for borrowers with less than perfect credit (regardless of the market) could raise the cost of a loan another half a percentage point - or an additional $70 a month on that same $200,000 loan - for nearly 20% of Americans. "For individuals looking to buy a home this is going to be just one more obstacle in their way," says Barry Ziggus, who tracks housing issues for the Consumer Federation of America...
...debate, McCain returned to the acceptable boundaries of presidential politics with a punchy new stump speech that was plenty critical of Obama but critical on matters of substance, not inference. Obama would raise taxes. He would spend too much. He would "concede defeat in Iraq." And then, in a perfect valedictory to his career, McCain said, "I'm an American. And I choose to fight." It is impossible to say what McCain's fate would have been if he had taken this tough but traditional tack and also chosen Senator Joe Lieberman, the Vice President he really wanted, as former...