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...another series of multi-billion losses, institutions including Citigroup and Bank of America (BAC) may simply not have the balance sheet strength to remain independent. While having the government seize one or two major banks may ultimately be the key to their survival, the public may instantly suffer a huge loss in its confidence in the rest of the independent banks, brokers, and money managers in the country. There has not been a collapse in confidence in banks since the Depression. While there may not be a great deal of logic to heightened fear about the future of banks...
...given enough in terms of concessions so far to make the government comfortable. If the GM plan is approved, 47,000 people lose jobs. If the plan is not, the number could be much larger. A bankruptcy of America's largest car company could not only lead to huge increases in the number of people out of work; it could leave a gaping hole in the confidence people have in the government to solve economic problems. (See pictures of Detroit...
...almost gets the steal, but fouls. Mavraides to the line for two shots. His first two points of the night are huge, as the team goes...
Cheney, Dick • refusal of Bush to pardon goofily nicknamed underling of evokes huge furiousness in • refusal of to just shut up already annoys David Axelrod...
...latest challenge to the U.S. military's ability to provide the 36,000 troops now in Afghanistan - with perhaps 30,000 more to come - with fuel, food and all the other supplies a war machine needs. While the flow of troops and materiel through the base isn't huge, it highlights the difficulty Washington is having getting other nations to help fight al Qaeda and Taliban forces that are expanding their reach inside Afghanistan...