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...problem facing America's economy has always been how to sell the worst of the toxic assets that are clogging banks' balance sheets. Geithner and his aides at Treasury cleverly realized that the best approach was to offer great prices on some of the more attractive stuff and hope the garbage would move too. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...problem by expanding an existing program. But it covers only some of the toxic securities: residential mortgage-backed securities that were initially AAA-rated but are now toxic. It doesn't cover commercial mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities that are no longer AAA-rated. (See the worst business deals...
...worst business deals...
...defined as having eight to 10 of the 32 possible EHR functionalities in at least one unit of the hospital. Even one of the most straightforward functions - computerized drug-prescribing - had been implemented in just 17%. Physicians' notes - which can be confusing at best and flat-out illegible at worst - had gone digital in just 12%. The only bright spot in the findings was computerized results-viewing, which allows doctors and nurses to call up lab results onscreen instead of having to wait for them to be delivered by hand; that time-saving upgrade had been implemented by more than...
...worst cars of all time...