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...directly to a demand for fiscal disclosure. "If you sell an animal, you had to disclose to the buyer what the hidden flaw is," he explains. Not only that: "the disclosure has to be made so that a 'reasonable,' or average man can decide" whether to buy. Once again, almost the entire chain of transactors in the mortgage crisis is guilty: predatory brokers for not alerting working-class borrowers to the fine print; middle-men selling mortgage debt to investment banks sliced and diced into "tranches" that obscure their riskiness; bankers who used hard-to-fathom financial instruments that leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do? | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...most recent year for which the A.D.’s tax filings are publicly available, the club earned $320,000 in revenues from the Adidas store, with almost $60,000 in net income. In 2006, the club lost more than $44,000 on the store...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A.D. May Lose Club Over Unpaid Back Taxes | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...presentation lasted less than an hour, but the question session afterwards took almost as long. Audience members raised detailed empirical challenges to her conclusions about the Pakistani case...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fellow Plays Down Nuclear Proliferation Fears | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...include extensive healthcare benefits for all its faculty, options for older faculty to “catch up” on 403(b) investing plans, and a workforce that is 30 percent over 50 years of age. On average, these older employees have been working for the University for almost 16 years, according to the AARP...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ranks on AARP Employer List | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...This case violates almost everything you would expect of fair editing,” Light said in a recent phone interview, stating that the authors were given more space and time to reply to the critique than he and his colleague...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Journal Integrity Questioned | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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