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The Chapter 11 solution
Today's topic: Would we be better or worse off now if the government had let General Motors and Chrysler slip into bankruptcy?
Complete Dust-Up: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Chapter 11 for GM and Chrysler would make Lehman seem like a party Point: Dean...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Crime, Law and Justice, Newspaper and Magazine, Bankruptcy, George W. Bush
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Last major investment banks change status
The Federal Reserve said today it had granted a request by the country's last two major investment banks -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- to change their status to bank holding companies. The Fed announced that it had approved the request of the...Tags: Democratic Party, Federal Reserve, CEO Pay, Central Bank, Economy, Business and Finance
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Asian stock markets plunge after Wall Street falls
The steep decline in U.S. stocks sent Asian stock markets tumbling sharply Tuesday as investors were rattled by concerns over an expanding global financial crisis.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index fell 4.8 percent to 11,632.99, falling under than...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Germany, Tokyo (Japan), South Korea, Stock Market
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High-risk traps or low-credit tools?
Today, Camerota, chairman of the California Mortgage Bankers Assn. and Leonard, the Center for Responsible Lending's California office director discuss the ethics of lending. Yesterday, they focused on the scale of the subprime crisis and proposed...Tags: Loans, Consumers, Mortgages, Federal Reserve, Family
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Phil Angelides' Record Is a Study in Contrasts
Times Staff WriterTwo distinct pictures of Phil Angelides, a Democrat running for governor, emerge from his record as state treasurer. There is the Angelides who campaigned in Santa Barbara for coastal protection -- and the one who took $143,200 in campaign checks from...Tags: Public Officials, Crime, Law and Justice, Values, Employers, Justice System
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Economic Summit: Cheney Urges Spending Restraint
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney opened a two-day White House-sponsored economic conference this morning, calling for spending discipline, extended tax cuts, and "an honest, straightforward, and realistic discussion about the future of the...Tags: State Budgets, Federal Reserve, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Wages and Pensions, Heads of State
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Tonawanda News, North Tonawanda, N.Y., Eric Duvall column
Tonawanda News, North Tonawanda, N.Y.I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I somehow had never read until last week one of our seminal works of literature, read by most in high school English class, "The Great Gatsby." F. Scott Fitzgerald's spellbinding tale of the origins and opulence of...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Leonardo DiCaprio, Long Island
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Carmakers seen heading for big year
The Japan TimesJapanese automakers are expected to reap further profits, possibly at record levels, in the current business year to next March thanks to the yen's decline and the positive U.S. economic outlook, experts said. The carmakers have already benefited from...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment, Nissan, Economy, Business and Finance
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Five questions for Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....
Tags: Hunt Valley, Federal Aviation Administration, Company Privatization, Economy, Business and Finance, Johns Hopkins University
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Channelside Bay Plaza is latest real estate project for entrepreneurial pals
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.In 2006 the old downtown Mercantile Bank building sold for $9 million. The plan was to tear it down and build a 50-story condo tower. Oh, those were the days. Then the downturn hit, and the real estate bubble collapsed. The building was in foreclosure...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Joint Ventures, Restructuring and Recapitalization
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The Reinhart/Rogoff brawl
WASHINGTON -- An insistent question of our time is how much government debt is too much. Is there some debt level that becomes crushing as opposed to merely costly? The controversy over research by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff shows how...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Angela Merkel, Economic Indicator, David Cameron, Gross Domestic Product
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Candidates and year-round swimming
I've written to the Leader previously on year-round swimming at the public pools and it would be interesting to know about the City Council candidates’ positions on this issue. However, there is a larger issue that has a greater impact on...Tags: Local Elections
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