Word: winded
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...most obvious failings of our financial regulatory setup, but doesn't really change the way the financial game is played. The Federal Reserve would have more power to snoop around financial institutions that it thinks pose a systemic risk, the FDIC would get the power to take over and wind down non-banks, most over-the-counter derivatives would be forced onto exchanges, and capital requirements would be ratcheted up across the financial system. But the current alphabet soup of regulatory agencies would remain mostly in place, and there will apparently be no effort to break...
...ACER Bend with the Wind...
Romance: "Stella!" (A Streetcar Named Desire); Runner-Up: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" (Gone With the Wind...
...time she arrived, Mendillo was dealing with not only a new staff but also small glimpses of the crumbling financial landscape that would engulf her first year.“When I started in July, I don’t think anyone could have foreseen the type of financial wind shear that lay ahead,” Mendillo says. “On July 3, the commodities market peaked after having been up 70 percent last year...and it went downward, pretty much in a straight line, to a negative 70 percent correction during the course of the fiscal year...
...Thus, as he headed into his key meetings in China, Geithner actually had an ever so slight wind at his back. He acknowledged as much, in fact, upon greeting Prime Minister Wen: "At the time we met in New York [last autumn]," Geithner told him, "it was a time of great panic. But we are happy to see small signs of recovery...