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Geithner replied that he believes that the way he and the Fed devised to get AIG out of its CDS contracts will prove to be the least costly for taxpayers. He said he had no role in hiding facts about what AIG had paid its counterparties or who those counterparties were. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who also testified at the hearing, said he was broadly supportive of the AIG bailout but had no knowledge of any payments that AIG made to particular banks. (See the worst business deals...
...It’s definitely time for me to prove myself and step into the role that [Kessler] has been playing the last three-plus years,” Bellamy said. “It’s certainly bittersweet to be playing when you usually have to win the position on the team, but like anything in athletics, it’s an opportunity...
...Even if a growing consensus holds that a political solution is inevitable, the fighting is likely to intensify over the next year. But it will be, fundamentally, a contest over the terms under which the Taliban are to resume a role in governing Afghanistan, not over whether they will play any role...
...some members of his close entourage in Poland and in the Vatican were able to hear, John Paul flagellated himself," writes Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Polish prelate who collected testimony in his role as "postulator" for the Pope's canonization. "In his armoire, amid all the vestments and hanging on a hanger, was a belt which he used as a whip." (See pictures of President Obama meeting Pope Benedict...
Columbia economics professor and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz chastised regulators, bankers, and economists for their role in the ongoing financial crisis before a full audience at Brattle Theatre last night...