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...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...weeks, Paulson had held off on direct investment, preferring instead to use the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), passed by Congress on its second go-round, to buy toxic mortgage-related assets from the banks. The bank bailout will be funded out of that budget, and the Treasury still plans to start buying troubled assets in the next month or so. But that wasn't soon enough for worried investors or for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who according to inside reports had been advocating for a recapitalization for months. Money flowed out of the stock market, including that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Bank Bailout: Are You Next? | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits of international economic cooperation in times of crisis, as witnessed by the recent round of consultation among the G-7 countries and the coordinated efforts of finance ministries and central banks around the world to restore confidence and liquidity in the credit markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Historian on the Lessons of the Depression | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Recent events have demonstrated, though, that rampant globalization has outpaced intellectual and political innovation. Exotic investment instruments like credit-default swaps and collateralized debt obligations have eluded meaningful monitoring, baffled regulators and investors alike and raised hob with markets worldwide. What is now manifestly needed is a round of creative institutional invention like what the New Deal gave us. Then history will have repeated itself neither as tragedy nor as farce but as common sense and consequential reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Historian on the Lessons of the Depression | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...have disagreements with over fundamental issues.” Somehow, “family man” and “Arab” came across as mutually exclusive concepts. The audience didn’t seem to notice—it followed the remark with a hearty round of applause...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Sound of Silence | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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