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...billion in emergency capital through the end of next year. But the FDIC is worried that if the agency, which has always been privately funded through bank assessments, borrowed money from the Treasury, it would look like a new bank bailout, eroding the sliver of confidence the public has regained in our nation's banking system in the past few months...
...broke, and probably stay that way until sometime in late 2012. And that raises the question as to how much a boost in confidence the prepayment plan will be to the banking system. "Does it really spook people that the FDIC has a negative number?" says Miller. "To the public, I think, it is less spooking than borrowing from the Treasury. That's why they are doing it. It's a p.r. thing." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...research suggests that longevity hinges in part on women maintaining an optimal body mass starting in their 20s and 30s, said Qi Sun ’07, a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...government should see this as a sign that advertising works and duly subsidize or commission media campaigns targeted at lesser-known, cost-effective drugs. Even better, it should support new types of treatments, bringing their effectiveness into public consciousness and increasing the placebo effect associated with them. But even more importantly, the government should extend the provisions for research on the comparative effectiveness of different treatments and of different treatments against a placebo. We should be pleased that placebos provide these opportunities for saving money to use in health care—now we must pursue them...
...health officials, it disabled the majority of Manila's medical facilities. Debris, sewage and abandoned vehicles that were tossed around by gushing currents now litter the notoriously polluted capital; aid workers warn of water-borne diseases. The government has placed the area around Manila under a "state of public calamity...