8-26-09

8-26-09—Investors are also growing more comfortable with the idea of emerging economics like China, Russia and Brazil playing a bigger role in shaping international finance.—WSJ A2
--President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on Tuesday announced steps, agreed to by bankers, to curb excessive compensation in the industry as he pledged to push for tighter international rules at a meeting of global leaders next month. “It’s too easy to say we’ll do nothing because others aren’t,” Mr. Sarkozy said, The New York Times’s Matthew Saltmarsh reports from Paris. “France must lead and try to persuade the others.” NYT B5
--“The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian organization, has issued an electronic “Town Hall Kit” to help its followers, including pastors, to set up their own meetings “to inform and activate the people in your pews and communities against the health care overhaul proposals moving through Congress. Actual Town Hall Not Included, NYT A14.