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    Furthermore, investigators suspect that, "Bank of America chief executive Kenneth D. Lewis used the threat of backing out of the government-backed deal as leverage for billions more in taxpayer bailout money" the Post writes. Can the Nook dethrone the Kindle? Full Article at Slate
    Bank of America chief executive Kenneth D. Lewis used the threat of backing out of the government-backed deal as leverage for billions more in taxpayer bailout money
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  1. The sheer creative imagination of the financial sector to think up new ways of taking risk will in the end, I believe, force us to confront the 'too important to fail' question
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  2. Barnes & Noble unveiled the Nook in Manhattan at an event well attended by CEOs of many of the industry's biggest publishing houses. Those connections helped the nation's largest bookstore chain win a concession: the ability for buyers of some e-books to lend their purchases to friends for as many as 14...
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  3. well before shareholders voted to approve the merger.
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  4. The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion.
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  5. were alarmed by mounting losses
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