The agonies of Argentina underscore the need for Latin American countries--and other nations, too--to dollarize their economies.
Her take: It's simply human nature for everyone -- children, too -- to want to be included in decisions about their daily habits.
One needn't be a blue nose--I have Stones lyrics ringing in my ears from my youth, too--to wonder whether the standards of our civilization and culture aren't getting confused.
How could Dodd-Frank think it was addressing Fin Reg without addressing too-big-to-fail in accounting firms too?
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Ultimately, FINRA is little more than a glorified trade group that seems too beholden to Too-Big-To-Fail interests.
FORBES: Goldman Sachs and UBS in FINRA Arbitration Employment Disputes
As I've advocated, a similar systemic risk levy to finance a "resolution fund" is being considered in Congress as a way to internalize potential bailout costs stemming from too-big-to-fail institutions.
With this year's holidays being just around the corner, it's only natural for companies to start tempting potential customers with cash-saving, too-good-to-pass deals.
ENGADGET: Microsoft announces Xbox 360 holiday bundles and $50 off promo for US market
We must accept that the conventional, kid-gloves approach to socially responsible investing -- divesting shares in "bad" companies that nevertheless continue to exist -- is too weak an instrument to force change and its well-meaning practitioners too soft to enter the fray when emotionally and politically charged battles need to be fought.
At BigSmart, the Pennsylvania resident had been rehashing old Equinox tactics: luring recruits with too-good-to-be-true help-wanted ads.
The same goes for the sounds-too-awesome-to-be-true virtual reality system, the Oculus Rift.
Zunited's sources won't touch these and we're keeping them at arm's length for now under the it's too-good-to-be-true heading.
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But one-size-fits-all reform reaction to the crisis by Congress and regulators is turning Main Street banks into collateral damage, as if they were too-small-to-matter.
By the time I was sporting my nylon (get-too-close-to-the-sun-and-it-will-sizzle-up) cap and gown, I realized that English Literature was absolutely the wrong choice for me.
ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox are all using the volume of blog and tweet activity as a real time barometer of this too-close-to-call campaign.
No one knows the extent of the problems in these financial institutions, but the central government's statistics showing single-digit nonperforming-loan ratios have a too-good-to-be-true quality to them.
And a not-too-up-to-date website that listed available homes.
Germain tells his almost-too-good-to-be-true tale of secular grace.
While Romney has called for repealing the Dodd-Frank Act, the centerpiece of Obama's fitful efforts to reform Wall Street, he hasn't provided much in the way of detail regarding how he'd address the too-big-to-fail problem.
Regulators have put SNS Reaal, the Netherlands' fourth-largest bank by assets, in the "too-big-to-fail" category, which means the government is required to come to the rescue should it appear to be on the road to failure.
What's amazing is how ineffective the Administration has been in dealing with the root causes of the crisis: easy money, Fannie and Freddie (and soon the Federal Housing Administration), Washington's credit-rating-agency cartel, short-selling abuses and the pernicious too-big-to-fail doctrine.
Nope, it was the too-big-to-fail institutions.
WSJ: Standard & Poor's 500 Had a Good Year in 2011 -- If You Don't Count Too-Big-To-Fail Banks
Using capital as a means of ensuring that banks do not fail will be a self-fulfilling prophesy that will only guarantee a land made up of Too-Big-To-Fail giants ( Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, etc.), and will eliminate any creativity in the financial sector.
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As capitalism enriches capital at the expense of labor and Wall Street at the expense of Main Street the winners are busily erecting anticompetitive toll gates all across the economic landscape, be they in the form of lower borrowing costs enjoyed by the still-too-big-to-fail banks or the higher health insurance premiums facing small businesses.
An ostentatious name, Benedict has never really fitted anywhere - too Catholic to be upper class, too long and Latin-sounding to be matey.
In mid July, the New York Times accused the FDA of creating a massive e-mail surveillance program designed to net junior scientists and other critics who complained the agency was too-quick to approve medical devices that the employees maintained posed unacceptable health risks.
There's too much money to be made--and too many anxious parents--to ignore the cellular market for kids.
"Traditionally, there have been a lot of reasons why organizations don't want to monitor -- too expensive, too time-consuming and too difficult to do, " Kugler said.
The consensus today seems to be that workers pushed these companies too far- to the brink of bankruptcy.
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Later tests found oxygen levels at about 7 percent -- too little to survive -- but that may be because the drill hole drifted as it was being bored, Stickler said.
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