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...when Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang is expected to detail the city's plan to deal with the economic crisis. Hong Kong's Monetary Authority has already said that it may use the city's $160 billion in foreign currency reserves to help shore up its financial sector...
That's exactly the sort of recessionary rationalization that charity leaders fear. For now, nonprofits are preparing for winter by paring back on nonessentials, even as they look to expand their base of donors. If the downturn is prolonged, we might see consolidations in the nonprofit sector, just as there have been in the business world. Ultimately, though, Americans will need to depend on the generosity of Americans. And the hopeful surprise is that in past recessions, donations to human services, like feeding the hungry, fell the least; in some downturns, they even rose. "That says something good about...
...clear message from Asia is that more intervention is needed to restore the financial system. The crisis is "now too big to be solved by the private sector," says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist of Nomura Securities in Tokyo. It's a lesson Asia learned a decade...
...jitters over insurance companies came to public attention this week, when stocks of both MetLife and The Hartford took a pummeling as they announced losses on their investments, particularly in the distressed mortgage sector. And the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the two companies had discussed merging, though the talks had not produced an agreement. Analysts for the credit rating company A.M. Best have downgraded their outlook for insurance companies, but they say the companies have weathered the financial crisis better than banks and investment houses so far. While warning that "nobody is immune" in such a dismal financial...
That difference may be a reflection of Germany's relative tardiness in addressing the crisis and high-profile $68 billion bailout of its Hypo Real Estate mortgage group. It could also reflect the French public's belief that its national penchant for state intervention into private-sector economics will not prove lacking this time around...