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...with the economy in an unprecedented slump in part due to the widespread and unregulated use of derivative contracts, Mack says she feels “vindicated” but also...
...killing was just one of a series of "bikie" murders and shootings in the past few weeks that has sparked widespread fear in Sydney and elsewhere. Police are concerned that a new and more deadly generation of "one-percenters" - as the bikies like to call themselves, because they believe they are part of a tiny group outside the law - has taken over. As a result, the police want stricter laws to allow them to crack down on the gangs. (See pictures of gangs in New Zealand...
TIME: Why have the cartels issued death threats against you? REYES: Organized crime here had infiltrated our police so deeply, and it was clear they didn't want a clean-up of the force. But it had to be done, and no other Mexican city has done such a widespread clean-up. And that caused the threats. Four weeks ago on a Sunday came the first public threat against me; but it was something we knew had been brewing for a while so I wasn't completely surprised or upset. I knew the consequences of the decisions I'd made...
Once some banks do sell, though, it could force a widespread, and revealing, revaluation of similar assets on every bank's books. The banks have been asking regulators and accountants for, and getting, relief from having to mark some of their assets to market prices because the markets for many debt securities are so clearly broken. But the prices prevailing in a smoothly functioning government-subsidized market will be hard to ignore. This has led to speculation in the economics blogosphere that banks might game the program by conniving with investors to overbid for assets. That's not inconceivable...
...they opened Fed lending to financial-services companies, making the Fed the lender of last resort for those firms, just as it is for traditional banks. In the past two days, Geithner unveiled the final two safeguards that he, Bernanke and Bair believe will help to prevent a future widespread financial meltdown: the power to take control of collapsing companies to ensure their failure is orderly and not contagious, and a limit to the amount of risk and leverage that non-bank financial players can take on. (Read TIME's Q&A with Sheila Bair...