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...Perhaps the best way to think about investing in public shares of alternative investment companies is to consider what else might get you similar exposure. Often the answer is a more traditional investment bank such as Goldman Sachs, which runs the nation's largest hedge fund. Plus it trades at 10 times earnings, less than half of Blackstone, and doesn't have its tax bracket being debated by Congress. In fact, many Wall Street firms have significant divisions devoted to alternative investments. Among them, fund manager Schutz most likes Morgan Stanley for its lower valuation...
...year of the reckoning—when voters will answer the question that makes politicos clutch their palm cards in angst...
...contrast, is the year of anxiety—when I await the answer to this question as an intern in the office of my oxymoronic comrades, the Connecticut Republicans. Lacking the glamour of a live campaign, the party headquarters offers only a knot of sullen political junkies who reminisce of better days. Still, as a longtime Connecticut Republican, the frustration of being in the minority has only reaffirmed my hope of kicking the Democrats out of office. Working for a political party in a non-election year has molded me from a sunshine ideologue into a true believer...
...money, but they'll never give Abbas a Palestinian state. The Israelis are still arresting people in the cities and towns. All we have to do is launch one attack in the West Bank and Israel will double back on all of its promises to Abbas." The only answer, the commander said, was for Abbas to renew ties with Hamas and give up on trying to split Gaza off from the West Bank. "This is what the Israelis want, and we Palestinians, as usual, will be the losers...
...usual objections can be made to all of this: Why should rich people be able to buy their way out of environmental guilt or short fuses with their kids when poor people can't? The usual answer is that the deal doesn't create the inequality and forbidding the deal doesn't reduce it. If you tell a rich person this is one thing he or she cannot buy, you are also telling a poor person that this is one thing he or she cannot sell...