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Europe's banks are in much worse shape, with a ratio of 40.5. They must either sell $9.7 trillion in assets or raise $485 billion in capital to bring leverage down to 20. The Royal Bank of Scotland (estimated leverage: 39.3) has already started slimming down. It recently put its retail and commercial businesses in Asia on the block. New CEO Stephen Hester has announced plans to create a subsidiary that will hold about $477 billion of the bank's assets that are earmarked for disposal...
...When the legacy loan and securities programs seemed unworkable in February, the market collapsed. But both Treasury officials and the market now believe that the banks aren't in as bad of shape as everyone thought back then. The fact that they can raise so much money from private sources means confidence is returning to the markets and credit is loosening up. "Success to us is that the system gets better, healthier," says the senior Treasury official. "Whether they sell into something we create or not doesn't matter...
...teach whatever they want, however they want, to make their field of expertise accessible and exciting to non-concentrators. Gen Ed committee members say they hope that the lessons students learn in Gen Ed courses will “stick” with them after they graduate and shape them into more thoughtful human beings.“The Core was in some ways linked to the academy or to have a better sense of why academics do what they do,” Kenen says. “Gen Ed is more about how this body of knowledge...
...sure, FAS departments, Harvard College, and the Houses are doing what we can to cut our budgets. Reimagining the shape of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and renewing the energy of Harvard Houses are critical and exciting tasks. We willingly undertake them. Working groups are at work—in Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and on the Houses, on Student Life, on Undergraduate Education. Our salaries are frozen. But will all this really save the $200 million a year necessary to meet the structural deficit inherited by our talented and visionary President? Can they really do anything by next...
...time results in a consensus that may last for a decade or more. We debate over which of our disciplines matter—and to what degree in today’s world of business, politics, warfare, and health concerns—with the intent to decide the mental shape of the next generation’s ruling class...