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...years old, Bernanke won the South Carolina state spelling bee, despite being initially told that he had misspelled a word. Bernanke, certain he was right, left the stage anyway. "He came back on stage and said he had spelled it correctly," his mother Edna recalled to the Washington Post. "And he was right." Bernanke was later eliminated at the national bee when he misspelled the word edelweiss...
...under pressure from Congress and the press, also released the number of the counterparties to many of its credit default swaps. AIG had decided to insure the value of certain paper owned by the likes of Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanly (MS), and Deustsche Bank (DB). When the value of that paper fell, AIG was on the hook to pay off the "insurance" which kept the likes of Goldman from having to book large write downs. Those write downs might have pushed Goldman into a difficult financial situation. The same holds true for a number of the other companies doing...
...money and why it's now losing so much. Most of AIG's losses have been attributed to its failing positions in credit-default swaps (CDSs). Essentially, AIG is swapping cash flows with other institutions: those banks pay AIG a small sum on a regular basis, and then under certain conditions - like mass foreclosure or corporations' defaulting on their loans - AIG pays out a large sum. In other words, AIG sold insurance; its problem is that it is paying out too much...
...sleep mode,” according to Mount. In past years, OCS employees have tended to take their vacations during July, in part because they are in high demand during the academic year, the interim director said. But Mount also emphasized that students who depend on certain OCS resources during July—including the Harvard Business School 2+2 program applicants, students on fellowships expecting checks in the mail, and graduate students writing dissertations—would still receive these services. Additionally, undergraduate interns who unexpectedly find themselves without a summer job could still rely on OCS for impromptu...
...havoc in the same way he did three years ago," says Omar Almashhadani, a spokesman for the Front, citing improvements in the Iraqi security forces and their intelligence gathering capabilities. "The problem," he adds, "is that some detainees are going to be transferred from a prison that, to a certain degree, respects human rights, to another that doesn't. We have less confidence in the Iraqi government than we do in the American troops...