Voters say economy overshadows political hoopla

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Trudy Tucker doesn’t know if the back-to-back U.S. political conventions addressed the financial worries she has raising four children — she was too busy to watch.

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ECB Worried about Liquidity Crisis

London, UK (FT.com): The European Central Bank on Thursday voiced its “high concern” at growing evidence that banks are exploiting its efforts to unblock the frozen funding markets by using its liquidity scheme to offload more risky assets than it envisaged.
Yves Mersch, a governing council member, said the ECB was now “looking very hard at [...]

Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop?

Eroding confidence stings bank shares
By Carter Dougherty

Monday, March 17, 2008
FRANKFURT:
Volatile markets and worried policy makers on Monday offered clear evidence that the months-long financial crisis linked to the U.S. mortgage market has turned into an acute crisis of confidence in the global banking system.
Stunned over the weekend by the emergency [...]