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...There are two major arguments against the level of regulation that the Administration would like. The first is that regulations do not prevent people from acting rashly or dishonestly. Rogue traders can still lose hundreds of millions of dollars on an investment bank trading floor with a PC and access to their firm's capital. Inside trading and naked shorting of stocks happen all the time, although both are illegal. Fighting regulation because some people refuse to be regulated turns out to be indefensible because the alternative is chaos...
...physical factors don't account for everything. Your psychology - namely, your personality and outlook on life - can be just as important to your well-being as exercising and eating right. And especially these days, with the world's economy tumbling toward a depression, it's a good time to prevent yourself from slipping into...
According to Brown’s Web site, she got a lot of experience under her belt before she turned 18. She befriended mob bosses, champion boxers, and politicians—including JFK. But this didn’t seem to prevent her from being imprisoned at various points by the Chicago Mafia and “an overzealous State Trooper...
...Congress scaled back Obama's budget by resorting to the same kinds of accounting gimmicks the President had prided himself on avoiding, a fact Republicans were quick to point out. It dropped the long-term inclusion of the costly Alternative Minimum Tax fix - an annual must-pass bill to prevent the tax once intended for the superrich from hitting the middle class - and opted for a shorter time line of just five years vs. the 10-year budget the White House had crafted. "Given the state of the economy, everyone agrees that it's very difficult to predict the next...
...same time, they opened Fed lending to financial-services companies, making the Fed the lender of last resort for those firms, just as it is for traditional banks. In the past two days, Geithner unveiled the final two safeguards that he, Bernanke and Bair believe will help to prevent a future widespread financial meltdown: the power to take control of collapsing companies to ensure their failure is orderly and not contagious, and a limit to the amount of risk and leverage that non-bank financial players can take on. (Read TIME's Q&A with Sheila Bair...