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...American and European carmakers face plummeting sales and an industry in flux, the storied Turin automaker is set to return to Detroit for a new, though less fixed, marriage. Fiat and Chrysler announced a nonbinding deal Tuesday to create a partnership that will give the Italian automaker a 35% stake in the smallest of the badly strapped American Big Three. The joint announcement stipulated that Fiat's commitment to its struggling partner would be solely an equity interest and that "the alliance does not contemplate that Fiat would make a cash investment in Chrysler or commit to funding Chrysler...
...this recent incident, guns may counter that purpose. Departments could, alternatively, become more stringent about the police’s freedom to use lethal force. Drawing a gun should be a very last resort—a tactic used when an officer’s life is at stake and shooting would be the only sufficient defense...
...other words: further nationalizations. Three months after it pumped $30 billion in emergency capital into the beleaguered Royal Bank of Scotland, the government on Monday upped its stake in the bank to almost 70% in order to help boost its lending capability. The timing could hardly have been worse: the bank announced on Monday that its losses for 2008 could be as high as $41 billion - by some stretch the biggest loss in British corporate history. Much of that loss is due to RBS's ill-timed acquisition of Dutch lender ABN Amro in 2007. "Yes, I'm angry...
...Those market cap figures are now closer to $40 billion for each of the four largest banks. A one trillion assistance package has to create some value for taxpayers. A stake in the banks would seem to be the only options whether it is through senior debt or equity...
...coerced their future selves for the benefit of those future selves. New Years’ resolutions don’t take the form of physical restraints like tying oneself up, but if the resolution is public, then one puts the credibility of one’s future self at stake – if your future self blows the resolution, you are calling yourself (your future self, that is) a liar...