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...Acumen seeks more than just practice from their relatively modest foray into the world of financial management: they hope to make a profit. Modis said that although the fund has exceeded the performance of their benchmark index, the S&P 500, they have maintained a conservative and cool-headed approach to money management. “I think it’s really important to make sure that you don’t think you have an edge when you really don’t,” Modi said. “Just make sure that you understand that...
Kenneth S. Rogoff, an economics professor and a former researcher at the International Monetary Fund, took a more measured approach to criticizing the bill, saying that he was not “thrilled” by it and was worried that the stronger banks might not want to take advantage of it. But he added that failing to pass the bill would send “a message to the credit markets that Congress didn’t care...
...after work that Fleisher directed at the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy in New York. The plots fed with compost are healthier, more visually appealing, and, in an unexpected bonus, require less watering than a set of controls that was fed with the standard mixture of chemicals. The two approaches are also comparably priced. Due to the success of the trial plot, Harvard Landscape Services plans to apply this treatment to all of Harvard Yard in the upcoming year, according to Wayne P. Carbone, the director of Harvard Landscape Services who tends the plots with his crew. The goal...
Obama, meanwhile, got to test his Unified Theory of Change We Can Believe In. His reserved, backstage approach risked looking cautious and calculating in its own way. But he has been arguing that the only way anything will change is if voters change the terms of the whole transaction and force government to listen to them and not just the lobbyists whispering in their ears. Just as this campaign has focused attention on electoral politics as never before, so did this crisis draw all eyes to Washington and how it works - and no one much liked what they...
...talks derailed, Obama's more hands-off approach looked like a much smarter bet than McCain's all-in hand. But Obama may also now have some second thoughts about the virtues of national unity and citizen involvement. Sometimes it feels like democracy in action. Other times it feels like mob rule. The complexity of the problem and intricacy of the solution meant that the public response was more emotional than anything else. In a leadership vacuum, we got irrational belligerence, a desire to punish the greedheads that will take its broadest toll on the victims, not the perps...