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First, he highlighted a massive new FDIC program to get the banks to sell troubled mortgages. For all the focus on complex securities based on bad loans, the bad loans themselves pose the greatest threat to banks' balance sheets, according to the Treasury department. Bill Gross, chief investment officer of the massive PIMCO bond firm who has been in conference with the government about participating in the plan, estimates the loans pose up to a $1 trillion problem for the banks, and the new program taps FDIC funds to get investors to buy those loans from the banks. Gross told...
...concluding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human welfare, the EPA's finding could lay the groundwork for nationwide regulation of CO2 emissions - just as the EPA is require to regulate pollutants like smog-causing sulfur dioxide. But regulating CO2 will be immensely more complicated - the U.S. emitted over 6 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2007 from countless sources - and business groups have raised the specter of a meddlesome EPA using greenhouse gases as an excuse to regulate projects large and small...
...said. Soghoian noted that he has already talked to Microsoft and Mozilla about incorporating TACO into the popular web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. Mark A. Fusunyan ’12 said that since he doesn’t tend to click on online ads, ad-tracking did not pose a “huge concern” to him. “The program seems like a good idea to put into an existing browser,” said Matthew C. Mulroy ’12. —Staff writer Michael J. Ding can be reached at ding2@fas.harvard.edu...
...recent e-mail from H BOMB expressed that these woes continue in the face of the nationwide financial crisis--and that might pose problems for the magazine...
...These challenges are just as Obama defines them: the soaring health-care costs that disadvantage American companies abroad, the difficulty young people—the lifeblood of any economy—have affording higher education, and, most drastically, the threat that a failure to meaningfully combat global warming will pose to both the planet and human lives. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor, wrote for Politico in response to Krauthammer’s piece, Obama is “not only a brilliant strategist, he is a brilliant analyst of America, understanding all the factors that contribute...