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...government has said that even banks that passed stress tests will not be allowed to pay back TARP funds until they can raise money on their own. Some banks have been able to venture out into the market on their own, but the rates they are now paying investors - without government backing, that is - are significantly higher. Analyst Brad Hintz of Bernstein Research estimates that JPMorgan, one of the healthiest banks, will have to pay three percentage points more per year to borrow without the FDIC guarantee. That would boost the interest JPMorgan has to pay on five-year loans...
...Treasury is in the process of auctioning hundreds of billions of dollars in debt and this will continue until the government no longer needs capital to run the country and save the world. IRS receipts are already running well below the Administration's forecast. The interest rate that the government will have to pay for money may go up as investors become less comfortable with the federal deficit. The Chinese government, which is the most important single purchaser of US paper, has expressed concern about the profligacy of American spending. No one can tell what the Omega is for government...
Instituting the measures could be a boon for society, however, potentially reducing the overall price of errors - e.g., subsequent hospital visits, extra posttreatment care and lost wages - to almost negligible levels, but only if the new policies can decrease the rate of preventable errors at least 11.3%, according to the study. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...also includes the kind of rhetoric more generally associated with the Democrats. A 15-page summary of the bill begins: "It is time to publicly admit that the health-care system in America is broken. Costs are rising at an unacceptable rate - more than doubling over the last 10 years, which is nearly four times the rate of wage growth. Too many patients feel trapped by health-care decisions dictated by HMOs. Too many doctors are torn between practicing medicine and practicing insurance. And 47 million Americans worry what will happen to them or their children if they get sick...
...sure why. The Japanese government on Wednesday confirmed the first two cases of the disease in Tokyo, the world's most populous metropolitan area. Meanwhile, the number of Japanese who have contracted the new flu has more than doubled since May 18 from 130 to 279, a rate of increase that is "without a doubt" the highest in Asia, says Peter Cordingley, regional spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO). "It's explosive...