Word: stops
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...public-private investment fund, then it's not a miss," says Talbott. If he doesn't, he'll have an even bigger mess on his hands. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby - the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee - Senator John McCain and others have called for the government to stop messing around and just let the bad banks fail. If Geithner doesn't deliver, they'll surely deliver the same verdict...
...Families are stuck wandering, not sure if they’ll find food or water, not sure if their attackers will come find them,” she said. Farrow called for UN sanctions, arms embargoes, and the appointment of a special envoy to the region to stop the bloodshed. “The Obama Administration has not yet appointed a special envoy to Sudan,” she said, adding that American citizens must call their representatives and demand action. “We must protect these citizens whose government cannot or will not protect them...
...Obama promised weeks ago to stop the excessive bonuses on Wall Street, at a time when the existence of the coming AIG bonuses had already been disclosed by the excellent reporting of Bloomberg News. Obama's staff vowed more recently that the further infusion of taxpayer money into AIG, a firm now 80% controlled by the Federal Government, was appropriate and necessary. And now Obama was faced with the fact that his new executive-compensation policy, which applied to only a narrow subset of executives at a few institutions, was powerless to stop the worst violators at AIG from getting...
...truth is they can. And they probably will. And Obama, despite his popularity and moral indignation, has few tools to stop them. The Treasury Department has already concluded that the bonuses in question, which were first made public in late January, cannot be rescinded because they resulted from airtight contracts that had been signed in April...
...practical on a large scale. Personal knowledge of the trades and the unique systems at AIGFP will be critical to an effective unwind of AIGFP's businesses and portfolios." In other words, the guy who just stabbed the nation in the gut is the only surgeon who can stop the bleeding. (See the top 10 scandals...