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Posts Tagged ‘Ben Bernanke

Financial crisis – story links

Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 15, 2008

Looking for a video lead for this post. Found the best one on Aljazeera, of all places.

Fed moves to deal with financial crisis, from Associated Press
From Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/index.html
Headlines from Reuters include “Struggling to Survive” and “Wall Street mauled by Lehman bankruptcy, AIG fears”
“Problems at Lehman spill over into several Canadian companies” [...]

Banking giants meet with Bernanke

Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 15, 2008

Great story on the bank industry meltdown in the United States by Bill Jamieson of The Scotsman, filed today at 11:38. The head honchos of the American banking giants were called in by United States Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke for a meeting. How does a newspaperman from Edinburgh write such a rich I-can-see-it-happening, on-the-spot [...]