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...funds run by O'Leary's asset-management company are trailing the market this year. Shares of the company's oldest fund, O'Leary Global Equity Income Fund, which was launched in 2008, have plunged nearly 24% in the past year. Next, there's the truth-in-advertising problem: O'Leary calls himself an "eco-preneur," but many of the funds' investments are in coal companies and other large polluters. An O'Leary Funds representative declined to comment on the performance of the funds. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...other programs like the mortgage modification and foreclosure mitigation efforts could go on for some time. When asked why modifications hadn't reached more borrowers, Geithner answered that they are trying to do everything to expand mortgage help, but the problem defies a quick fix. "It is very unlikely that we will say that the housing market has got to the place in the next few months where it no longer needs help...
...Silvers said some of the people the panel had talked to complained that the continued weakness of a number of the nation's largest banks was hurting the economy. He asked Geithner if he thought "zombie" banks were a problem. Geithner noted specifically that he didn't think Citigroup was a "zombie." He added that the fact that many of the banks have been able to raise private capital shows that TARP has improved their prospects...
...government to Goldman Sachs and other investment banks. Geithner was also asked whether he thought the government's bailout efforts, which have actually allowed a number of banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo to grow, has only exacerbated the too-big-to-fail problem in the banking business...
...their part, Western countries have accused India and other developing countries of obfuscating the bigger issue by equating the "stock" problem of global warming with its "flow" problem. The stock of historical emissions for which the West is largely responsible must be dealt with by assigning responsibility, but the flow - the continuing emissions that developing countries are increasingly adding to - must be resolved by incentivizing cuts on future emissions. They demand more flexibility from India; the U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 because it would not accept any binding cuts unless developing countries accepted cuts too. (Watch...