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...Geithner is working with a fairly well thought-out historical perspective on the crisis. He believes the U.S. government allowed the creation of a massive shadow banking system run by investment banks, hedge funds and brokerage firms over the last 30 years that rivaled the traditional system in size but lacked every one of the stabilizing pillars that had been erected beneath it after the Great Depression: deposit insurance, access to a lender of last resort, a system for orderly failure, and reasonable constraints on risk and leverage. With near bottomless funds from money-market investments and sky-high leveraging...
...worked for banks, because mere rumors that a bank is headed for failure can drive it under. That's why Congress long ago created a separate regulatory system and reorganization process for banks, with the Fed and the fdic at the center. Over the past quarter-century, though, a "shadow banking system" of investment firms, hedge funds and derivatives dealers grew up that was subject to the same risks as banks but not the same rules. In September, Lehman Brothers, a major cog in this system, filed for Chapter 11. In one sense the process worked as designed--much...
Aside from Gordon-Reid, the winners of the night were Judy Blundell, who claimed the prize for young people’s literature; Peter Matthieson, whose book “Shadow Country” won in the fiction category, and Mark Doty, who won the award for poetry...
...scrambler, so I think NFL teams are very interested.”Work began over the summer with extra workouts and extra calories. For the 6’1, 175-pound Berry, it’s been adding weight to a slender frame that might get lost in the shadow of a pro defensive back. And for the NFL-sized, 6’5, 225-pound Pizzotti, the summer meant more focused workouts on the things scouts typically look for, such as arm strength and mobility. This fall it’s been interacting with scouts while concentrating...
This week's summit is a test of whether Tibetans are ready to step out from under His Holiness's shadow. The Dalai Lama is not attending any of the talks, nor has he appointed anyone in the Tibetan parliament-in-exile's leadership to direct them. Instead, all the summit delegates - regional Tibetan community representatives, members of parliament, youth leaders, independence activists and other NGOs - were divided into about 15 groups by choosing numbers at random on the first day of the talks. They have split up in the various government buildings scattered around Macleodganj, where the Dalai Lama...