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...know the precise point of the extreme, but today there are many things that tell me that fear is way over the top, not the least of which is the level of cash holdings by private households and businesses as a percent of GDP - it's at a post-World War II high. There's so much sideline buying power - dry powder - and everywhere you look and it shows up in the Fed's statements. Part of this is because the Fed is dumping so much in [to the economy] and part because people have gotten very liquid and "safe...
Gharakhanian said he was aware of the ViddyHo.com worm because of a post on the tech gossip blog ValleyWag but said that, to his knowledge, Ton-That was not involved...
...After Griles' guilty plea in the Jack Abramoff influence peddling case: "I am most proud of the willingness of the many current and former department employees who told the truth about this top Interior official, sometimes at great risk to their own careers." (Washington Post, March...
...something akin to a secret society residing within the Interior Department that was colluding to undermine the protection of endangered wildlife and covering for one another's misdeeds." - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, on Devaney's investigation into MacDonald and the Fish and Wildlife Service. (December 15, 2008, Washington Post...
...surprisingly, the political ABCs often trump purely judicial considerations. In the post-Escobar era, paramilitary commanders emerged as some of Colombia's most dangerous narco-criminals. By deftly holding the sword of extradition on drug charges over their heads, Uribe convinced dozens of these warlords to turn themselves in and demobilize their troops. Those who cooperated and confessed were eligible for light sentences. But soon these death-squad leaders began implicating political allies of the President, including lawmakers, army officers, the government's spy chief and even Uribe's cousin, who was forced to resign from the Senate...