Secondarily, if the administration is so nervous about the implementation of discretionary cuts, why not be more forceful and more descriptive and more specific about entitlements that would stave that off?
"What's happened over the last year or so is that the political elites in Europe are getting nervous about how they talk to their publics about why they have troops in a place as far away as Afghanistan, " said Smith.
All of which may explain why the folks at Knight Capital may be nervous these days is there one among them or perhaps someone at a vendor who knows something?
And here is one important reason why the non-bankers on the Co-op's board are nervous about getting bigger in banking: they are acutely aware of how the non-bankers at HBOS, Sir James Crosby, Andy Hornby and Lord Stevenson, were pilloried by MPs earlier this month for making a total horlicks of their bank.