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...real problem is that lots and lots of financial institutions are insolvent--their losses, if they actually recognized them, are enough to wipe out their capital reserves. If that's true it would make more sense for taxpayers to give them cash outright, and take a big ownership stake in return (with the idea of selling it off a few years down the road). The Swedish solution, they call it (and longtime readers of this blog know it was being discussed here long before anybody else in the U.S. was talking about it). The version of the bailout plan voted...
...just a matter of 'because they could'? It was logical for individual Wall Streeters because they could reap big rewards from overleveraging and not necessarily suffer from the eventual fallout. It was not logical for Wall Street firms to do so (because it put their survival at stake) but those firms are after all just collections of individuals...
...Dexia after news of its U.S.-linked losses sent its share price falling 30%. That followed Sunday's announcement that Fortis, the Dutch-Belgian insurance and banking giant, had been partially nationalized through a $16.4 billion injection from the three Benelux governments, each of which will acquire a 49% stake in operations in their respective countries. In Britain, meanwhile, the government announced this week it had taken control of problem mortgages from Bradford & Bingley, Britain's second biggest mortgage lender. Despite those moves amid the spreading U.S. crisis, however, observers believe European companies and homeowners are not as exposed...
...These reminders of what's at stake make the facts all the more troubling. The FDA devotes only 3% of its food-safety spending each year to fresh produce, which is especially important because it is often consumed uncooked. It examines less than 1% of produce imported into the U.S., despite the fact that the amount of imported food has grown dramatically in recent years...
...copyright policy, which basically says please steal our stuff, just don't distort it and they distorted it. We have absolutely no objection to a candidate accurately quoting us. But we really have to push back hard when people distort what we say because our credibility is at stake. In this case, they knew perfectly well they were misrepresenting what we said. It was really outrageous and we kind of went off on them I guess. We were not amused...