As for Hinkley Point C, it is becoming painfully more obvious by the day that it is the wrong design, failing elsewhere for the French state energy giant EDF, with a dud agreement that may drive EDF's fragile finances into meltdown and cost the UK taxpayer a bundle.
FOR those who championed a hands-off approach to the supervision of finance, the economic meltdown should have prompted reflection on the value of common-sense regulation.
In the wake of global finance's near meltdown, Europe has been more aggressive than the United States in clamping down on banks headquartered there.
Finding financing amid the meltdown was "an experience," Mr. Cabaniss noted — he had a relationship with Wachovia until that venerable bank imploded — but eventually a small bank based in Waxahachie came through for him.
Mr. Romney also plans to embrace his time at Bain to contrast his role in the private sector with that of Mr. Gingrich, who profited from consulting deals with, among other companies, Freddie Mac, the housing-finance giant whose meltdown in the mortgage crisis has cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
So when you cross the siren server with finance, you get the meltdown of the market, too big to fail, austerity, and the jobless recoveries.
Muslim moneybags The western financial model may be in meltdown, but Islamic finance is in fine fettle.
And it was the rapid revival of finance following the 2008 market meltdown and federal bail-out that softened New York's most recent recession.
Even now, facing a not dissimilar meltdown in global finance, the surviving reforms of unemployment insurance, collective bargaining, securities law and Social Security are the strongest bulwarks separating us from a similar abyss.
A self-taught expert on finance, she foresaw the current economic meltdown years ago.
Back in 1987, there was still something rather comical and preposterous about Douglas's finance villain; now, after the recent credit crunch meltdown, the whole subject has lost a bit of its jauntiness.
