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...selling research to investors to charging bond issuers to rate their goods. This approach wasn't unheard of: you have to advertise in Good Housekeeping to get the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. What made it problematic was that at about the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) exalted the status of the ratings by writing them into the rules governing securities firms' capital holdings. Since then, the use of bond ratings in regulation has only grown. Many institutional investors are banned from owning non-investment-grade bonds. Bank-capital requirements--the cash and equivalents banks need...
...Sorry! “Hey, Thesis,” then. Are you feeling alright? Your binder is a little crooked, let me fix that...Oh, and look at this, you’ve got schmutz down your front! I’ll wipe it off, stand still for a sec...ah! Sorry, sorry, I’ll stop fussing...
...feet, he had his lower legs amputated before he was a year old. As he grew up, so did the science of prosthetics. Now 21, Pistorius runs on carbon-fiber blades known as Cheetahs. He won gold in the 200 m at the Athens Paralympics in 2004, breaking 22 sec.; but now his eye is on the Olympics in Beijing. It was up to the world body that governs track and field, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), to determine whether using Cheetahs is cheating...
...This was one of the most brazen insider trading cases we have seen in a long time.” said David Rosenfeld, associate director of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the New York regional office. “The defendants in this case effectively ran an insider trading business. They seized every opportunity to steal valuable information for personal gain with total disregard for the integrity of our markets...
...lawmakers' interest in probing the torture issue remains unclear. Politically, the topic became even trickier when a former CIA interrogator came forward this month to say it took about 35sec. of waterboarding to break 9/11 conspirator Abu Zubaydah, who supposedly then revealed additional al-Qaeda plots as well as details leading to the capture of other terrorists. "It was like flipping a switch," the retired agent said, describing the effectiveness of waterboarding in an account that may help explain the revelation that four members of Congress--including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi--received detailed briefings on interrogation techniques...