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...specific bank results. Observers assumed that Treasury officials were nervous that if a bank failed the test customers and investors would flee. But in the past few weeks the Obama Administration has started to believe that the market is doing a good job of differentiating between good banks and problem banks, according to the Administration official. That belief, the official says, gives the Treasury the confidence that it can release individual results of the stress tests without disrupting the market, or unduly forcing a bank out of business...
...fury over AIG executives' bonuses is heightened by the overall anonymity of those behind the broader economic collapse, for which no one is being held responsible [March 30]. However understandable, this scapegoating distracts from the bigger problem and may debilitate the political will to enact appropriate legislation. Connell J. Maguire, RIVIERA BEACH...
...Reverberations The fury over AIG executives' bonuses is heightened by the overall anonymity of those behind the broader economic collapse, for which no one is being held responsible [March 30]. However understandable, this scapegoating distracts from the bigger problem and may debilitate the political will to enact appropriate legislation. Connell J. Maguire, Riviera Beach...
...that's the big problem for Crowe, Julia Roberts (Duplicity) George Clooney (Michael Clayton), all of whom have starred in conspiracy dramas written or co-written by Tony Gilroy. They and their films appeal to adults - in box-office terms, the all-unimportant 25-to-80 demographic. The theatrical release of their films is just the teaser campaign for the real release: when they're available on Netflix...
...show such moderation,” the study noted. The remaining 5 percent of players studied bet in excess, buying a median of $116.13 in chips at 10 sessions per week. Although the number of people participating in online gambling is contested, the study showed that the percentage of problem gamblers has barely changed since the 1970s, hovering around 0.6 percent of the United States population. Andrew M. Woods, the executive director of Harvard Law School’s Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, said he did not find the results of the study surprising. He asserted that poker...