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...told, McDonald thinks that Citigroup has $88 billion in risky assets. That's not quite $100 billio,n but it is close. And that's what has the Citi-doomsday-folk yapping...
...mediators have had little trouble persuading Afghan leaders gathered in Germany to accept the principle of a broad-based government. Then again, everyone at the conference has reason to be especially nice; the prize money for consensus is $20 billio n, the amount of aid the international community has pledged as a carrot to coax the fractious Afghans. The three days of talks that began Tuesday in Koenigswinter are aimed at finding agreement among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil...