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...stress test is also influenced by the measure you use. We chose the leverage ratio. To calculate it, divide a bank's equity by its assets, much of which are loans. The lower this ratio goes, the shakier a bank becomes. For example, a 10% leverage ratio means the bank has lent out $10 for every $1 in equity it has. A 5% reading translates to $20 out for every $1 in hand. Regulators like to see a reading of at least 5%. Anything less than that and a bank could become toast. Here's what we found...
Owning a Porsche with a 500 horsepower engine may impress a lot of people, even the driver. When it comes to daily use, however, most of that output is useless...
...California Facebook's Status: Sorry Deluged by angry user feedback, social-networking site Facebook retracted a change to its terms of service that would have given the company the right to use members' private information--and license it to other companies--in perpetuity. The change, which covered users' personal bios and photos, prompted more than 96,000 members to protest by--how else?--joining a Facebook group against...
There was a whiff of the future in the Taser. When inventor Jack Cover, who died Feb. 7 at 88, first conceived his controversial stun gun, he imagined a world in which danger could be averted without the use of deadly force...
...Taser was launched in the mid-'70s and is now used by thousands of police departments and military agencies worldwide. But the device's efficacy has been hotly debated--not least amid the public outrage over its role in the 1991 Rodney King incident. Organizations like Amnesty International have strongly criticized the regularity with which law-enforcement officers use the stun guns, attributing hundreds of deaths to incorrect Taser use...