Nov 25th, 2008 · In announcing its plan to fight the ongoing financial crisis, the Federal Reserve released the following statement: "Under the TALF, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) will lend up to $200 billion on a non-recourse basis to holders of certain AAA-rated ABS backed by newly and recently originated consumer and small business loans. The FRBNY will lend an amount equal to the market value of the ABS less a haircut and will be secured at all times by the ABS." What does this mean?
Keywords: financial · Business · crisis · Federal Reserve · Consumers · haircuts · Holders · Abe · AAA · TALF · FRBNY
Sep 13th, 2007 · Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hospitalized for "extreme exhaustion, a day after announcing he would step down. Abe, 52, was to remain hospitalized for at least three or four days, his doctors say, leaving the care of his scandal-scarred government with his top deputy, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano.
Keywords: hospital · scandal · deputy · extreme · Premier · exhausted · Abe · Minister Shinzo Abe · Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano
Sep 12th, 2007 · Premier Shinzo Abe says he will step down after just a year in office that has seen a series of damaging scandals and a humiliating election defeat that sapped his government's popularity. Abe, a member of Japan's long dominant Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, has seen his approval rating plunge to a mere 30 percent.
Keywords: minister · scandal · officer · popularity · Humiliation · Abe · Liberal Democratic Party · Premier Shinzo Abe · LDP
Jul 30th, 2007 · Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party suffers a severe defeat in parliamentary elections, losing control of the upper house of parliament. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will stay in office.
Keywords: officer · Parliament · Parliamentary · Abe · Liberal Democratic Party · Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Jul 30th, 2007 · Andrew Ferguson is senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a self-described Abraham Lincoln buff. His book Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, takes a look at how the icon is remembered today.
Keywords: senior · icon · America · Abraham Lincoln · adventure · Lincoln · The Weekly Standard · Abe · Andrew Ferguson · Land of Lincoln
Jul 29th, 2007 · Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party suffered humiliating losses in parliamentary elections Sunday after a string of political scandals, exit polls showed, but Abe said he did not plan to resign. The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan almost without interruption since 1955, but is expected to lose its majority in the upper house.
Keywords: scandal · politics · Parliamentary · Humiliation · 1955 · Abe · interruption · Minister Shinzo Abe · Liberal Democratic Party
Apr 26th, 2007 · As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes his first visit to the United States, an old issue is expected to emerge: Japan's World War II decision to force Korean women into brothels. Abe has been reluctant to apologize for the practice.
Keywords: United States · World War II · summit · apologized · Korean · brothels · Abe
Sep 10th, 2006 · Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua and Lebanese writer Elias Khoury discuss the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and its impact on the region they call home. Both men have experienced the effects of war first-hand.
Keywords: Israel · region · conflict · Writer · novelist · lebanese · israeli · Abe · Hezbollah · Yehoshua · Elias Khoury
