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...conventional thinking is that the $700 billion of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money was the beginning and will be the end of the bailout. TARP lent $238 billion to more than 680 banks, according to SNL Financial, a research firm; 44 of these banks have repaid a total of $71 billion. Thus, there's less than $170 billion, a relative pittance, of TARP money invested in banks...
...total, there are five remaining flu clinics this week, which will take place today through Thursday. Two of these clinics will be held at undergraduate house dining halls—Mather is scheduled for tonight and Eliot for tomorrow night...
...very much in either place [Iraq or Afghanistan]," says Brookings Institution defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon. He and his colleagues are keeping running tallies of U.S. fatalities in both theaters. While 5% of U.S. deaths in Iraq have been caused by helicopter crashes - 216 out of 4,348 - the total is 12% in Afghanistan - 101 of 866 - even before Monday's losses. "The main issues [responsible for the higher rate of helicopter-crash casualties in Afghanistan] have to do with terrain, weather and of course frequency of use," O'Hanlon says. (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
...Tigers kept up pressure in the second half, scoring just 46 seconds into the start of the period. The Tigers’ final total of nine goals marked its highest offensive output of the season...
...reform proposals that could have some long-term effect on the employer-based system, the most significant may be one that would levy a 40% excise tax on policies that cost more than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family coverage in 2013. (The average total cost of individual and family policies in 2009 was $5,791 and $14,375, respectively.) Policy experts say these expensive plans lead workers to overuse the medical system, driving up costs for everyone else, and all observers would expect such a tax to be passed on directly to policyholders in the form...