Word: cores
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...particular risks that brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy seem to lie not with its core insurance businesses but with its derivatives-trading subsidiary AIG Financial Products. AIG FP, as it's called, merits a mere paragraph in the nine-page description of the company's businesses in its most recent annual report. But it's a huge player in the new and mysterious business of credit-default swaps: derivative securities that allow banks, hedge funds and other financial players to insure against loans gone...
...Right about now is when you whine, “But Harvard’s not good at sports,” and get up from the breakfast table, spilling half-finished coffee all over my column photo before running off to your Science A core (if you have any suggestions on what class to take, my e-mail is at the bottom of this story...
...shopping period gets underway, all Harvard students are finding themselves up curriculum creek without a paddle. The period of transition from the Core to General Education has been poorly handled and badly implemented, forcing students into a position where choosing classes (and choosing a curriculum) is a trauma. Although we stood behind the original Gen Ed program as envisioned by its creators, the entire process has become perverted by the College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally...
That could happen. But another possibility is that loan losses will continue to grow to the point that the core institutions of the American financial scene - Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America in particular, but also possibly Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley - are seen as endangered. Then we'll really get to see what a bailout looks like...
...signs, as markets avoided chaos and the company itself appeared close to selling its asset management arm to a private equity firm. There were also reports that Barclays, which had decided over the weekend not to bid for Lehman as a whole, might still be interested in buying the core of Lehman's business, its broker-dealer operation...