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...more controversial on Wall Street. As banks must do now, big hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance companies and others who play in the financial markets would have to open their books (on a confidential basis) regularly to government overseers. Hand in hand with that requirement would be much tougher limits on how much risk any financial firm could take, so that the days of making huge bets on the markets with relatively little in capital to back them up would be no more. And Geithner's plan would also for the first time subject exotic financial-derivative products, like...
Margaret E. Soutter ’12, whose blocking group was walking along the river at the time, said that Cambridge police were taking the tougher line, threatening, “‘If you don’t back away from the river in 30 seconds, we’re gonna lock...
...agendas help explain the unseemly bickering of the past couple weeks. Continental Europeans, with sounder banks and less fiscal room for maneuver, are rejecting U.S. calls to spend more; the U.S. and Britain, anxious not to kill off laissez-faire capitalism, are reluctant to cede to European demands for tougher global financial regulation. The old G7 countries are pushing to give the International Monetary Fund a financial boost; others distrust the IMF and want a much greater say in how it's run. Many complain that it's impossible to work with Washington because the new Administration...
...shooter’s father was a shooting club member who owned 15 legally licensed weapons. More of the weight of such crimes must fall on the parents and others who leave such weapons in reach. Allowing unlicensed individuals to access one’s weapons should incur tougher penalties. Stricter penalties and regulations on gun sales could help keep such weapons out of troubled hands, but, as long as licensed guns are available, we must work harder to keep them secure...
...lead.“We weren’t fazed at all by the conditions,” Clayton said. “Whether it was losing the doubles point or being beaten in three straight sets in singles, at this point we are growing into a much tougher and competitive team than we’ve been this year.”With the Tribe’s advantage overturned, No. 2 Felton beat Marwan Ramadan (6-4, 7-5) for Kalfayan to clinch the decisive fourth point at No. 6 with a 7-5, 6-4 win over...