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...recklessness in the name of short-term profiteering is at the root of the trouble. For all the recent signs of improvement, the financial situation is still far from normal. Some huge financial institutions, from AIG to Royal Bank of Scotland, remain on government life support. Jürgen Stark, a board member of the European Central Bank (ECB), recently estimated that financial institutions operating in Europe alone are facing total losses of around $650 billion between 2007 and 2010 - and have so far written down less than half of that amount in their books. "There is no room...
...equity of investment banks would drop by one-third. "It's out of the question to systematically increase layers of capital in the banks if there's no supplementary risk," says Ariane Obolensky, managing director of the French Banking Federation. But the tide is against such critics. As Stark of the ECB put it in a speech this month, "the simple statement that 'if banks are too big to fail, they are probably too big to exist' is a reasonable rule." The postcrisis financial system, he predicted, "will probably place greater emphasis on traditional banking activities, which tend to produce...
...have not shown that Trichomonas Vaginalis causes prostate cancer at all,” Stark said...
...earlier version of the Sept. 25 news article "STD Linked to Prostate Cancer" misspelled the last name of the lead author of the study. Her name is Jennifer Stark, not Jennifer Star...
...name a few—none of them have done it quite as impressively as Bon Iver in “For Emma, Forever Ago,” the 2007 debut album written, performed, and produced by Wisconsinite Justin Vernon. Part of the success of the album was the stark and at-times haunting instrumentation that supported his hymnal voicing. In Vernon’s newest project, an entirely new musical setting from the one established in “For Emma” surrounds these same vocal styles, yet it is just as moving. “Unmap...