"The successful sale of these securities marks another important milestone in the wind-down of the government's emergency financial crisis response efforts," Mary Miller, assistant secretary for financial markets, said in a statement.
During the last two years we realized that these profits were fictitious, for reasons related to accounting games: off-the-books entities, sophisticated banks preying on weaker banks and opaque securities marked to model.
The customer balances are typically fully collateralized by the underlying securities, marked to market on a daily basis, and in most cases there is a 50% margin on deposits.
Officers going into primary schools to chat to children about community safety, or encouraging cyclists to security mark their bikes, won't make the headlines, leaving crime prevention more vulnerable to cut-backs.
Does your car come up to the high security mark?
If the email has no security mark.
Bike parking at the transport hubs is secure, with a bike mechanic providing free check-ups and a Met officer offering security marking.
US officials confirmed Washington had evacuated its remaining personnel from Yemen, including about 100 special operations forces, because of deteriorating security, marking a further setback in US efforts against a powerful local al-Qaida branch.
Putting Mexico in the driver's seat on security marks a shift in a balance of power that has always tipped to the United States and, analysts said, will carry political risk as Congress negotiates an immigration bill that is expected to include provisions for tighter border security.
It remains to be seen how profound this impact is on the race, but the conventional wisdom about the politics of American national security, marked for three decades by progressives' fear of conservative dominance and mockery, will never be the same.
