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  • International - Coordinated Central Bank Action to Improve US$ Liquidity

    09/18/2008 12:35:38 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 24 replies · 299+ views
    bankofengland.co.uk ^ | The Bank of England
    Today, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank are announcing coordinated measures designed to address the continued elevated pressures in US dollar short-term funding markets. These measures, together with other actions taken in the last few days by individual central banks, are designed to improve the liquidity conditions in global financial markets. The central banks will continue to work together closely and will take appropriate steps to address the ongoing pressures. Bank of England action The Bank of England will offer...
  • Seeking Harbingers (George Will on Nicholas Sarkozy)

    08/26/2007 5:12:52 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 7 replies · 570+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | August 26, 2007 | George Will
    <p>PARIS -- French libraries are said to file their nation's constitutions -- there have been more than a dozen since 1789; the current one is a relatively ancient 49 years old -- under periodicals. Now Nicolas Sarkozy, France's peripatetic new president, has created a commission on constitutional reform. The commission includes Jack Lang who, as minister of culture in 1983 under President Francois Mitterrand, staged a sublimely unserious conference on the (supposed) world economic crisis, featuring the likes of Sophia Loren, Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer.</p>