At the time of its demise, Bear Stearns was overextended by a leverage ratio of 30-to-1 (the ratio of money leant out vs. capital on hand).

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The participants had to record themselves how many words they got each round and, at the end of the experiment, hand in a notebook of their achievements and take the corresponding amount of money out of an envelope.

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It also means that Islamic banking needs to be full-reserve banking--Western banks typically loan out a multiple of the amount of money they have on hand, or in reserve.

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Spending cuts on the other hand, will pull a great deal of money out of the economy.

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These problems are problems for a reason, and they need a plan of attack, not a glib push to hand out money.

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It explains how politicians across the country hand out billions of dollars in public pension funds to the money managers who fill their campaign coffers.

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These tend to go the other way moving money out of diocesan accounts and into parish accounts, trusts of various sorts and any other receptacle at hand.

ECONOMIST: The Catholic church in America

Mr Bellerive also points out that at least 40% of any aid money goes on the salaries, insurance, cars and so on of the foreigners who come to hand it out.

ECONOMIST: Rebuilding Haiti