By taking equity stakes, the Treasury also risks picking industry winners and losers--it's unlikely Paulson's team would put taxpayer money into weak banks that could otherwise be sold or closed.

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Second, far from picking winners and losers, Ex-Im loan guarantees simply ensure that the United States has a chance to have winners in the international market place.

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Marin, a former math professor and proficient early-seed investor with a vast network of industry connections, is a master in picking future stock winners in the junior exploration as well the large- to mid-cap energy sectors.

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Politically, Ohio is the most important because of its large endowment of electoral-college votes and its history of picking presidential winners.

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We'll be picking ten more winners next week at random from your replies - and ten more for the funniest comments.

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Ironically, Pataki has emerged as an outspoken critic of current federal clean-tech policies, saying that the federal government should stop picking winners and losers and instead focus on policies that can benefit the entire industry.

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The FCC is clinging to an obsolete Government-knows-technology-best mindset where Government imagines it is better at picking technology and market winners and losers than users and market forces are.

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The bankruptcy of a favoured solar-cell manufacturer, Solyndra, was a reminder that governments have a poor record of picking winners in technology, whether green or any other colour.

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