The Securities and Exchange Commission is in the middle of a broad market review of their influence on the markets, whether they are getting special access that allows them to jump in front of other traders unfairly and whether they can make mistakes that pose big risks to market stability.
Supporters of legalization see it differently, arguing that the best way to make sure immigrants do not pose an unfair threat to American workers is to make the immigrants legal.
If that happens, the implementation of the program could pose a make-or-break test for the euro.
Either way it looks like both the UUP and the SDLP will take the single ministries on offer - power it seems is a drug neither party can give up, even if being being bit part players in the executive will make it harder for them to pose as a viable opposition in the future.
And now the French-induced compromise on the bank presidency will make it harder for Mr Kohl to pose as guarantor of a hard euro in his increasingly difficult campaign for September's general election.
This same transparency, however, could pose a problem: The numbers make it clear that Loews' stock, despite its rise, trades at a discount to its likely breakup value (see table).
Those same capacity constraints make it hard for smaller competitors to obtain enough spectrum to pose a serious threat to the largest incumbents.
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Many of the messages pose as security checks, routine ID updates or make people react by saying there is a problem with their account.
Ms Miller's ear for the language, both black and white, her eye for gesture and pose, above all her feel for the bitter clarity of adolescence, make this a remarkable book.
And while the wisdom of hindsight may make it appear blindingly obvious that non-bank financial institutions could become large enough to pose a risk to the entire system, clearly this was not apparent to policymakers at the time.
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