Word: walls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...problem with letting banks go over their grades is that, if they can argue with the government in private, they can take those arguments public. Banks told that they must raise capital can debate the judgment and claim that the entire program is flawed. That may cause shareholders and Wall St. analysts to question the value of the entire process and whether it creates an accurate gauge of bank balance sheets and future prospects...
...Secretary of the Treasury, spent some of the early parts of his career being attacked by Congress. Legislators were not happy that he could not come up with details about the Administration's stimulus program and plans to buy bad assets from banks by recruiting shrewd investors from Wall St. and giving them access to taxpayer cash...
...pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...Bambino—brought on by selling Babe Ruth to chief rivals, the New York Yankees—the Sox finally found victory with World Series Championship wins in 2004 and 2007. Fenway Park, the home field, is known for the Green Monster, the highest left field wall in Major League Baseball. The season is pretty much sold out by now, so forget the box office. Unused tickets are released incrementally, so if you show up to Fenway in the early afternoon for a night game and wait in line, you can usually get some seats...
...Going out into the real world next year, Witt has been accepted into a fellowship in politics in which he’ll be splitting time between Colorado and Washington, D.C. He also had an offer to return to the Wall Street firm where he interned last summer. Eventually he wants to go to law school...