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...training going? Thursday and Friday were our crew final exams; we passed with pretty much perfect 5 out of 5 scores across the board. For me personally, I felt that I was able to perform my duties satisfactorily, which of course is a good baseline. I now know I'm not a liability...
...throws a party like a couple of cats with a sax, or at least so the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival musicians seem to prove. The eighth annual jazz festival, which kicked off this Thursday night, features internationally renowned artists, an eclectic, vibrant crowd, and an array of food from around the world. It’s a party that 70,000 people were projected to attend, some for the jazz, some for the revelry. “It started out as a small block party,” Berklee publicist Nick Balkin said. “Now it?...
...because he pushes around foreign governments and big bankers in his spare time, or that he has pictures of himself handling snakes decorating his office. The key reason he thinks he'll win this encounter with Congress is that this is one deal that really must get done. Last Thursday the great American credit panic of 2008 was on the verge of halting the country's financial circulatory system. Anyone with money to lend was hoarding it and big institutions were starting a run on the money market funds that hold the hard-earned savings of millions of Americans...
Only two things stopped the panic. One was Paulson's move to guarantee the money market funds with a special hoard of Treasury money usually reserved for stabilizing the dollar against other currencies. The other was the announcement Thursday night of the plan to lift the bad loans (and the myriad complex assets made up of them) out of the system and put them, at least temporarily, on the taxpayers' balance sheet. If the deal falls through, the panic will almost surely begin again...
...instance we had to make a decision on Thursday to use our exchange stabilization fund here to guarantee money market funds because money was starting to flee those funds, and if it fled those funds it was going to get to the financing of American businesses who rely on them for $1.7 trillion in short-term borrowings...