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...having to spend all his time apologizing for screwing up his tax returns, as he did during his confirmation hearing last month. Today, before the Senate Banking Committee, he answered the questions he could easily answer with brisk clarity and deflected the ones he couldn't with aplomb. ("I understand what you're asking," he said with the faintest hint of a smile when Montana Democrat Jon Tester wanted to know what was the upper limit of money the government would put into a troubled bank, "but I just want to be careful in responding...
...home country - maybe, you know, there's a reason for it. But I didn't get the cover, and it's O.K. because working with Sports Illustrated is such a big compliment anyway that it's not even a disappointment. Now that I am on the cover, I understand how exciting...
...plan to work, private investors and the government will have to agree what these loans are worth. "Many of the institutions that bought these deals didn't understand them fully," says Barry Silbert, chief executive of SecondMarket, which helps investors buy and sell hard to trade assets. "It is going to be very hard for the government to come in and try to pack up these opaque assets and ship them off to investors." (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...understand how this works, think of Strata as a car insurance policy with a deductible. And then imagine you just had the worst wreck of your life while driving your diamond-encrusted Rolls Royce. The first $130 million in losses from the accident is your deductible. You are covered for the next $20 million in losses. The next $850 million comes out of your pocket again. (See pictures of expensive things that money...
According to its supporters, Facebook's "25 Things" trend helps people understand each other, and the millions and millions of poorly punctuated revelations have united people in a way no mere chain letter ever could. How else to explain such outpourings of compassion as "I too have been injured by a ninja throwing star," "Phlegm problems? Ugh, tell me about it," and "I am another straight man who listens to Jewel." (See the best and worst blogs...