Fed chief Ben Bernanke told the financial crisis inquiry commission today:If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that the too-big-to-fail problem must be solved***Too-big-to-fail financial institutions were both a source … of the crisis and among …
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Government Economic Leaders Surprised that Real World Isn’t Responding to their Magic Pixie Dust
September 2nd, 2010 |
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BP Using 30 Year-Old Playbook in Responding to Oil Spill?
May 27th, 2010 |
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Rachel Maddow claims that a top kill type maneuver – pumping in cement and saltwater – was tried during the giant 1979 Ixtoc oil spill, but didn’t work.Maddow also says:The precursor to the same company operating the Deepwater Horizon drilling well …
The Government Official In Charge of Responding to the Oil Spill Was the Official In Charge of Responding to Hurricane Katrina
May 3rd, 2010 |
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I have provided a balanced overview of the oil spill. I have tried to diffuse partisan comparisons of the oil spill with Hurricane Katrina.But I just read something which is making me lose my composure a tad.As the New York Times reports:Homeland Secur…
Af nudged by US to resolve political cris The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday. As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of Hamid Karzai’s votes from the August Presidential polls, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Afghan President will “set the stage†for resolving the political crisis by announcing his intentions on Tuesday. Clinton also hoped that the crisis in the war-torn country would be resolved soon. “He is going to announce his intentions. I am going to let him do that, but I am encouraged at the direction the situation is moving,†Clinton told reporters at the State Department after meeting with Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki. She was responding to questions about the political crisis in Afghanistan in the wake of a UN-backed panel deciding to cut Karzai’s share of the vote to 48 per cent, below the threshold for an outright win. “I am very hopeful that we will see a resolution in line with the constitutional order in the next several days,†Clinton said. “But I don’t want to pre-empt in any way President Karzai’s statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this,†she said, when asked whether Karzai has decided to accept the findings of a UN- backed fraud.is
October 20th, 2009 |
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The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday.
As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of [...]