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Old 2012-08-12, 07:34   Link #22891
ganbaru
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Generators whirring, India's factories shrug off blackouts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8761CZ20120807

Analysis: Disastrous intervention puts Thai rice exporters in peril
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8771IJ20120808

Edit: Apologetic Swiss banks sweat it out as U.S., Europe mull redress
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...87B06020120812
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Swiss banks hoping to atone for decades of complicity in tax evasion may be left to sweat it out for months as the United States and Germany ponder the right level of punishment.

Switzerland has long dodged U.S. accusations of hiding money for wealthy Americans. But now eleven Swiss banks are under investigation in the United States and there is pressure too from Europe where burdened taxpayers want scalps after numerous banking scandals. The Swiss need a deal to remove the taint from their financial industry.

However, Washington must factor forthcoming elections into its thinking, and Germany is delaying ratification of a tax deal key to Switzerland's efforts to strike similar agreements elsewhere in Europe. So the Swiss may be in limbo for a while.
Why that sentence did made me think about Romney the moment I saw it ?
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