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...hard to figure out what would happen to the real economy if the banks are left on their own to work through loan failure of this magnitude. "Germany has not succeeded yet in getting control of the financial crisis," says Klaus Zimmermann, president of the Berlin-based DIW economic research institute. "We must quickly extract the toxic assets from the system so that the banks can finally reassume their service role for the real economy...
...economic-research institute, suggests that the banks sell the toxic assets to the federal government at no charge. In exchange, the government would then provide the banks with equity by taking stakes in banks that participate. The toxic assets would be placed in a state-owned bad bank and sold back to the banks at a later date when a market for such assets reemerges. "This ensures that the shareholders and not the taxpayers have to bear the initial costs of the failure," says Dorothea Schäfer, DIW head of research...
...case of the so-called Octomom continues to spur outrage and debate over the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S., new research suggests that the most effective and inexpensive IVF method may also be the least likely to result in dangerous multiple births...
...recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research provides promising data to back up such a policy change. Conducted by economists at the University of California and Columbia University, the decade-long study found that high-school freshmen who attended school within a block of fast-food restaurants were markedly more likely to be obese than those whose schools were farther away when adjusted for variables like income and race. Similar results applied when researchers tracked obesity rates before and after the opening of a new fast-food outlet in the area...
...other profession would it be considered acceptable to fire employees solely for being new at the job or exploring time off, regardless of their job performance. Indeed, research consistently reaffirms the strong connection between teacher quality and student achievement; schools cannot afford to lose effective teachers because of seniority rules. Moreover, because teacher pay is also related to seniority—and recent hires have the lowest salaries—cutting only the newest hires means that school districts must lay off more teachers in order to balance their budgets, further straining school resources and driving up class sizes...