But the good part is, they absorb information peripherally while focusing elsewhere.

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As for the Germans, the good professor believes they can absorb the bad loans at the German banks which are in total 20% of the German GDP.

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"You can make a pretty good evolutionary argument that this was how we were designed to absorb information at about 5km an hour (3mph), " he says.

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The good news is that big banks probably now have enough capital to absorb the aggregate loss rate suffered by the system from 2007 to 2009 (although their build-up of liquidity reserves has been patchier).

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If that is a concern, then they do need to work with their internet service provider, and perhaps with a cloud-specialty anti-DDoS provider, because those organizations have infrastructures and massive amounts of internet bandwidth which can actually absorb gigantic attacks, filter out the majority of malicious traffic, and then send the good stuff through to the end user.

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The good news, says Malpass, is that the U.S. economy is robust enough to absorb another full point of hikes.

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