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This is - there's really no denying it, although Geithner has tried - yet another giveaway to the rich and well connected. Then again, it's supposed to be. Luring smart, informed investors, who've been on the sidelines, into currently dysfunctional markets for mortgages and mortgage securities is the whole point. Some amount of wheel-greasing subsidy is needed - and the question of whether the plan offers too much is pretty much unanswerable. It will be easy to tell if it offers too little: no one will participate...
...that smart. Except, perhaps, Henry Paulson...
...That's just one of the many muddles described in the newly released book Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, by Drs. Steven Woloshin, Lisa Schwartz and H. Gilbert Welch. If you think you're a smart and skeptical reader of health news and pharmaceutical ads, you may want to read this book first and then think again. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of the past year...
...usual places in recent months. The U.S. dollar, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen - each with a history as a safe haven - have all provided homes for nervous depositors' cash. But as the economies of those three countries flounder, it's time to look around, and smart investors think they've discovered a new harbor to protect them from the choppy economic seas. "The best safe haven currency," analysts at banking giant HSBC wrote in a research note this month, is Norway's. According to HSBC's reading, right now the Norwegian krone is "probably the best currency...
...Black is reinforcing what the smart money already thinks about the big money center banks. Their CEOs are talking about profits and paying back TARP money the same way that they were calling an end to banking write-offs a year ago. Former Lehman CEO Fuld said last April that the worst of the writedowns was probably over and Morgan Stanley (MS) chief John Mack said that the financial crisis was in the "eighth inning or top of the ninth." (See pictures of baseball...