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...getting a rating of a particular level is equivalent to "a regulatory license - a key that unlocks the markets," says Frank Partnoy, a law professor at the University of San Diego. In 1975, the SEC, in an effort to better define who was a legitimate rater of bonds, designated certain firms "nationally recognized statistical rating organizations" (NRSROs). Today, if you are a bank or a pension fund or an insurance company you have a firm grasp of the safety of your bond holdings - they're as safe as an NRSRO has told you they...
Second, Geithner said the still-nascent Federal Reserve program launched last week to restart non-bank commercial lending [i.e., by helping investors buy securities backed by auto loans, credit card debt, etc.] would be expanded to provide funding for investors who want to buy certain kinds of mortgage-backed securities. The government's enthusiasm for the starter plan, known as "TALF," has outstripped market enthusiasm, but there is some life in it. The Federal Reserve has put up over a $1 trillion in potential lending already, though only $9 billion in deals have been done so far. Geithner...
...what they're doing!"? Basically, we ran a bunch of experiments on bees and it was clear that they had some way of telling each other what was going on. They were definitely communicating something, but it wasn't clear what. So a number of trials were conducted where certain factors were controlled. One of the factors [that was] changed was the direction of the sun. And the bees' behavior changed. When they went back in the hive, they started wiggling about differently. The next step is to correlate the exact position of the sun with the direction in which...
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...domain of the dead" and say the bodies found likely belong to a select group of elite ancient people. It's the most solid evidence yet, but it doesn't preclude Stonehenge having a dual purpose as an astrological calendar or as a religious site. The only thing certain is that as the sun rises and sets to mark another equinox, another day will pass with the complete answer of the site's origins still firmly lodged in the past. Perhaps that's how it's meant...