加拿大银行欲从TARP分一杯羹

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Good news for Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. 1.  The House of Representatives voted this week, 423 to nothing, to give Barofsky bigger powers, broader authority to enforce TRAP regulation, including get this, agents that are, you know, trying to figure out what banks are doing with all this TRAP money. They can now actually carry firearms.

Can it get this sense of like Neil Barofsky is Rambo, storming in the banks, shooting them up, trying to find out where all the money that has been, you know, doled out to all these banks is going.

2.  Oppenheimer & Co. Inc, Canadian financial services company that's based currently in Toronto is considering a move from Canada to Delaware in order to allow the bank to apply for US bank bailout funds. They need money apparently like so many banks here in US do. 3.It's very amusing since, you know, the Canadian banks, by and large, have actually held up a lot better during this credit crisis than many of their US counterparts. And it’s, you know, to their credit, eh. But I guess Oppenheimer, they are just the hosers of the Canadian banking system.

There’s some talk to try and change some rules that would allow newspapers to possibly apply for non-profit status. However, there is a big catch if they do this. They will no longer be allowed to actually have any political endorsements on their editorial pages, so, it's a, you know, kind of catch 22 there. 4. And does the government, we are all already ticked off enough about the government meddling in the automotive sector and the banking sector. Do we want the government really running the newspaper sector as well? I don't know about that. That seems a little dicey. Hopefully, newspapers will find another way to survive instead of relying on Uncle Sam, since, you know, bailouts, they just haven't been so good so far.

Vocabulary:

1.       Inspector General: n.检查长, 监察长

2.       Rambo: 电影《第一滴血》片名，主角名字  

3.       shoot up: to cause serious injury or damage to someone or something by shooting them with bullets

4.       by and large: For the most part; generally总的来说

5.       hold up: to not become weaker

6.       to one’s credit: 使某人感到光荣

7.       hoser: n.(Canadian Slang) A clumsy, boorish person, especially an uncouth, beer-drinking man.

8.       catch: [informal]a hidden problem or difficulty

9.       political endorsement: the action of publicly declaring one's personal or group's support of a candidate for elected office.

10.   ticked off: angry or annoyed

11.   dicey: slightly dangerous and uncertain