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• Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Indeed, when John McCain injected himself into congressional negotiations over a bailout for financial institutions last September, it proved to be a political setback for the Republican presidential candidate. What's more, officials pointed out that ...
• Latest bailout payment: $33.56 billion to banks
In its place, he announced on Oct. 14 that the government would buy shares of bank stock as a way to inject fresh capital into the institutions quickly. He pressured nine of the largest banks to participate in the program during an Oct. 13 meeting at ...
• Second Life bank crash foretold financial crisis
A string of bank collapses prompted Alan Greenspan, U.S. economic guru and former head of the Federal Reserve, to admit last month that lending institutions could not always be trusted to regulate themselves. He could have taken a cue sooner by ...
• College closings rare, but could rise in turmoil
Colleges are remarkably resilient institutions. Princeton University's Nassau Hall still bears the cannonball marks from the Revolutionary War battle that raged near campus. Dickinson and Bowdoin colleges saw their first buildings burn down, as did ...
• Find a Home for Your Business
The World Economic Forum's definition of competitiveness is the "collection of factors, policies, and institutions which determine the level of productivity of a country and that, therefore, determine the level of prosperity that can be attained by ...