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Though the amendment has been narrowed in order to ensure that it will not aim to politically influence the creation and setting of monetary policy, it still interferes with the necessity of an independent Federal Reserve with the power to act in times of crisis. In the financial system, a bank does not need actually to be running out of money for a bank run to occur; there only needs to be the impression that the bank might be running out of money. This is why all of the major banks only received Troubled Asset Relief Program funds in concert...
Novey is a volunteer for Citizen Schools, a national network of after-school education programs for students in the middle grades. Novey teaches a group of middle schoolers from Edwards Middle School in an after school apprenticeship at B. Good. In order to raise money from the program, Novey decided to run the Boston Marathon in a burger suit, collecting sponsors along...
...That then translated into the economy - how we use money, whether we invested it correctly, whether we invested it in the wrong things, whether we just wasted it, whether it was lost through lack of transparency. And that just created the whole problem of the huge deficit and the huge debt. So putting our house in order is actually reshaping and re-launching Greece, but reshaping the whole political system. In many ways this crisis should be seen also as an opportunity...
...meantime, the legal clouds around the case appear to be growing thicker. On Wednesday, April 7, Israeli prosecutors arrested Olmert's close confidant and former lawyer Uri Messer on suspicion of helping to collect bribes, obstructing justice and laundering money in conjunction with an unnamed suspect. The local media are barred by a court order from revealing the identity of the suspect. The Jerusalem Post ran an article with the headline "Uri Messer Is the Link." The police are calling the Messer case "one of the most serious corruption affairs in the state's history." (See how Olmert succeeded Ariel...
Modern malaria control, however, cannot be accomplished by money alone. Successfully combating the injustice of malaria requires cooperation across the lines that divide society—lines like religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender. In countries across Africa, groups are recognizing this need to work with one another in order to make real progress on eradicating the disease. In Mozambique, Together Against Malaria brings Christian and Muslim leaders together to utilize religious infrastructure to improve access to malaria prevention measures. In Nigeria the same is being done by the Nigerian Inter-faith Action Association, which will help distribute...