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...Though the President did not offer a cost - estimates on Capitol Hill have put the total bill at anywhere between $75 billion and $200 billion - he did justify the new spending by citing nearly $200 billion in unspent or returned funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. "This gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street," he said...
...gold-mining companies, but that added a layer of volatility and risk. Since 2004, however, it's been possible - through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) - to effectively own gold without the hassle of actually owning it. Gold is now something you can hold in a portfolio, like any financial asset. Lots of investors have chosen to do so. The SPDR Gold Shares ETF has assets of $40 billion, and similar ETFs around the world have another $10 billion. (See pictures of black gold...
...would be a great asset to scientists because he thinks about why scientists do what they do,” Tolonen said...
...When the deal to sell part of GM's Opel to parts supplier Magna began to lose momentum, Henderson failed to gauge the depth of the board's sentiment that GM keep Opel as a strategic asset and he remained opposed to doing so up until the very end. That left him crossways not only with Whitacre but also with the German government - an embarrassing place...
Harvard’s massive library system is a university treasure. Preserving the quality and size of this rich academic asset is a worthy goal, and even in the midst of a recession, when cuts must be made and services must be discarded, the library system should be one of the last to feel the pinch. Hopefully, this principle will guide the university’s plan to revamp the library system to make it more centralized, digitized, and cost-effective, allowing Harvard’s collections to emerge from budget cuts more or less intact...