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...champion of transparency in monetary policy, but he also recognizes that there are limits to what we know about the economic forecast and what that means to monetary policy." - then-New York Federal Reserve chief Tim Geithner, who now heads the U.S. Treasury Department. (BusinessWeek...
...agenda, he understands how much is riding on the gradual rollout of version 2.0 of his bank plan - not necessarily bigger than the $787 billion package that left the markets cold, but sharper and more plausible. The trouble with the initial draft unveiled unartfully last month by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, says Moody's Economy.com chief economist Mark Zandi, was that it was "too clever by half," creating elaborate incentives for private investors when the simple solution would be to have Uncle Sam immediately wade in, grab control, wring out the bad debt and punish the malefactors. The more complex...
...Read "Tim Cook: The New Steve Jobs...
Today it was the turn of Winnenden (pop. 27,600), a pretty town some 12 miles (20 km) outside Stuttgart in southern Germany. At 9:30 in the morning, Tim Kretschmer, a 17-year-old former student of Albertville Realschule entered the school's plain, white flat-roofed building wielding a 9mm Beretta and, as a police spokesman described it, "simply opened fire". On his rampage through classrooms and corridors, the youngster, clad in black combat gear and reportedly wearing a mask, killed nine pupils, all of them aged 14 or 15, and three women teachers, and injured seven others...
...signs are that it's got even further to go. On Friday, Minnesota's highest court refused Franken's request that Governor Tim Pawlenty and secretary of state Mark Ritchie be forced to award him the coveted election certificate, which, according to Senate rules, is necessary to seat a candidate. The ruling virtually ensures that the legal wrangling will continue for several more weeks and - if Coleman chooses to appeal the case, possibly to federal courts - perhaps even months...