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...Treasury plans got a lot of incoming fire because they assume participation by the private sector in the process of buying assets from banks. Secretary Geithner made a very big mistake by not bringing one of these private investors to the press conference where he presented his plan. Either George Soros was not available or he turned the opportunity down. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...surprisingly, Thomsen's "dead man walking" status officially changed late Monday, when the SEC announced that its top cop had decided to call it quits and return to the private sector. Thomsen joined the agency in 1995 and became its enforcement chief...
...Chief In your article "An Enforcer Named Emanuel" [Feb. 2] you state that the new Chief of Staff at the White House earned $18 million at an investment firm in two years. Given the revelations recently concerning pay and bonuses in the financial sector, was this information meant as praise or criticism? Leslie Keogh, AIXE-SUR-VIENNE, FRANCE
...1930s, but the one constant is human behavior. Personal balance sheets, corporate balance sheets and bank balance sheets will inexorably move into safer instruments given the wealth destruction that has occurred in riskier assets over the past year (and which will continue for the foreseeable future). If the banking sector alone were to move toward its more conservative 1935 ratios, then the increased demand for government paper from that source alone would be $700 billion...
...telecommunications networks, announced on Jan. 7 that China was finally ready to join the party. And despite its late arrival, the debut of 3G, which allows much faster data-transmission speeds and services like Web-surfing and video-streaming, promises to be quite a blowout. Government and private-sector estimates put total probable expenditure on 3G in China - whose 630 million users make up the world's largest group of mobile subscribers - at a whopping $59 billion over the next three years. That bonanza will be virtually the only bright spot in the otherwise gloomy outlook for Chinese and foreign...