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...seems to be that Treasury should shoot the wounded and let the surviving banks buy their assets. "There is no use in injecting equity into institutions that are basically insolvent," says Harvey. There's also what's known as the "lemons" issue: any bank that applies for funds might spook investors. The solution is to make all healthy banks participate...
...flurry of action only served to heighten the panic across Europe, along with concerns that the European finance and banking sector may be as imperiled as that of the U.S., despite repeated assurances to the contrary from E.U. leaders. Indeed, the moves to guarantee private savings accounts seemed to spook market watchers into believing far worse was yet to come for Europe...
...stakes in the Wall Street firms and new limits on executive compensation, doesn't have all the time in the world to act. "These markets are still very fragile and the conditions in the credit markets are very tight," he says. Asked whether ongoing negotiations on the Hill could spook markets, he says, "That obviously impacts the market and the markets are watching what's going...
...That's certainly true of the CIA analyst played by John Malkovich. Osborne Cox: his very name is steeped in two denominations of old money. After decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class...
Still, Democrats seem most interested in raking over the Plame story in search of any remaining political sparks with which to light an election-year fire. It appears they are hoping that the White House will do something stupid, like try to stop McClellan from testifying. Democrats tried to spook the White House by inflating the potential value of McClellan's testimony. McClellan himself hired the high-profile husband-and-wife legal team of Michael and Jane Tigar to defend him in case the Administration does try to play hardball. The Tigars specialize in defending unpopular clients - from accused Nazi...