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...able to close it without marveling at Palin's instant ascent to international fame. Keep in mind that it's only been a dozen years since she won her first election, becoming Wasilla's mayor by a vote of 651 to 440. A little more is now at stake...
...government conservatorship as with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but it might have required an act of Congress to make that happen. So the Fed devised a deal in which AIG agrees to repay the loan with asset sales and give the government (and thus taxpayers) a 79.9% equity stake in the company...
...demand the same type of “executive responsibility” that commanding a wartime squadron would have engendered. This is not to take anything away from McCain’s heroism; it is simply to say that experience is not the most pressing issue at stake when assessing the two tickets...
Treasury agreed to backstop the companies to the tune of $100 billion each, in exchange for an ownership stake that will be determined by just how much money taxpayers have to pony up. The companies are to be operated as going concerns by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), their regulator. The FHFA has already told the CEOs to go (albeit with lush severance packages), but most other executives are being asked to stay. The companies' shares continue to trade, although their market value dropped more than 80% the day after the takeover was announced...
...Much is at stake for the region. Louisiana's post-Gustav recovery has been hobbled by the absence of electrical power in vast swaths of the state, including New Orleans. It's hard to miss supermarket chains' radio ads begging for employees to return: Some workers, mindful that they might soon have to evacuate again, simply aren't bothering to check in with employers...