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...using government guarantees, according to Thomson Reuters. Had the banks had to raise that money on their own it would have been much more expensive. Morgan Stanley, another bank that has reportedly been looking to pay back TARP funds, has raised $23 billion in FDIC-backed debt since the program began in November. Hintz estimates the government's help is allowing Morgan Stanley to lower its borrowing costs by 5½ percentage points. That would have raised Morgan Stanley's expenses by nearly $1.3 billion a year. And that is just the money it has borrowed in the past...
...Banks exiting the TARP program are also looking to buy back the warrants they issued to the government in order to receive TARP funds. David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights, estimates that it would cost JPMorgan nearly $2.6 billion to buy back their warrants from the government. "Banks may have to spend substantial sums to pay back their TARP warrants," says Hendler. Proponents of the banks paying back the government say the higher borrowing costs will only be temporary. As the market improves, banks will be able to issue bonds on their own at lower rates. Indeed, so-called bank...
Funding for undergraduate advising will face substantial reductions next fall. The concentration fair for freshmen and sophomores has been eliminated, and the “Advising Fortnight” programming will be serially reduced, downsizing from 72 events to 35, according to a document obtained by The Crimson on advising budget cuts. In addition, the head of undergraduate advising programming, Associate Dean Monique Rinere, will leave this summer for a new post at Columbia, and her post will likely be left vacant, according to two students on the student advisory committee. The advising office faces the “loss...
...that they’re ending the program. It’s not because of the money, it’s just that I won’t be able to see a lot of these people again and I won’t be able to be around students,” said Robert “Bob” Leathe, one of the exam proctors filing out of Lecture Hall...
...White House meeting saying he and Obama saw "exactly eye to eye" on the Iran issue, and some media reports suggested that Obama had agreed to a deadline of the end of 2009 for his diplomatic efforts to succeed in persuading Iran to reverse course on its nuclear program. In fact, Obama was more nuanced in response to the Israelis' agitation for a time limit on Washington's outreach to Tehran, refusing to impose an "artificial deadline" but affirming that his patience was not unlimited, and that by year's end he would have a good idea whether Iran...