Word: situationer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
• "I think Bernanke is in a very difficult situation. Too many bubbles have been going on for too long. The Fed is not really in control of the situation." - Paul Volcker, Fed chief from 1979 to 1987, on Bernanke and the Fed's response to the rapidly declining economic...
AIG, under pressure from Congress and the press, also released the number of the counterparties to many of its credit default swaps. AIG had decided to insure the value of certain paper owned by the likes of Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanly (MS), and Deustsche Bank (DB). When the value...
It may be hard to believe but, as in many nations, the domestic front matters more to Iranians than the phantom menace of Israel and the U.S. Iran's economy is crippled by debt and inflation and a government that has grown moribund and ineffectual. That is the real situation...
Set against a backdrop of growing Islamist militancy and economic insecurity, fears are growing that the current clash between political rivals could push the country further toward the precipice. Senior U.S. and British envoys have attempted to pull the two sides back. In the most high-profile intervention yet, Secretary...
For the moment, however, troops have been asked to secure Islamabad and other "sensitive areas" in the event of violent clashes. "When the situation deteriorates, gets out of hand of police, paramilitary [troops], only then the army is deployed," Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the military's chief spokesman, told the...