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...actions taken last fall by the Fed, Treasury, Congress and governments around the world "may well have averted the collapse of the global financial system, an event that would have had extremely adverse and protracted consequences for the world economy," Bernanke said. Market improvements were already allowing the Fed to unwind some of the extraordinary actions it took last fall, with credit extended to banks and other financial firms declining from $1.5 trillion at the end of 2008 to less than $600 billion now. Congressional meddling in Federal Reserve decision-making - there are proposals to increase Congress's audit authority...
...will sacrifice disproportionately in a warmer world. It's up to rich nations like the U.S. to move first and move most - and the good news is that Obama seems ready to do so. Still, those efforts will come to naught unless countries like India do their part as well - with a lot of help from the developed world. It's not fair, but it is true...
...have the clothes or the hair to pull that off. And being married to Tobias could get a little awkies. Or maybe a Lucille or George Sr., who can simply will (or hire a one-armed man to help coerce) what they want done. Seems to work out fairly well for them, but I guess I’m still a little young to be quite that bitter. There’s always the option of pulling a Buster and faking a coma to escape from it all, but I suspect that real doctors might be slightly more competent than...
...Pragmatism may also well influence the reception Moratinos receives when he becomes the first Spanish Foreign Minister to visit Gibraltar since Don Diego de Salinas and his downtrodden troops surrendered to British forces in 1704. Although one political party on the Rock has urged locals to fly the British and Gibraltar flags as a display of their "inalienable right to self-determination," Searle doesn't expect much in the way of open hostility. "In the end, the meeting came on short notice," he says. "And we're very deep into summer...
...electric cars now on the drawing boards of established automakers are likely to cost more than $20,000, limiting their potential customer base to well-heeled drivers in wealthier countries. The sticker price of GM's Volt could be as high...