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...events that led to the collapse of Bear Stearns represent one of the focal events in American financial history,” said Bergstresser, an assistant professor at the Business School and one of the case’s co-writers. “Until the market events of last week, the collapse of Bear was the major financial event of the last 10 years...
...face of politics, noting that “government is going to look a lot more like Facebook and eBay in the future.” “Undergrads are going to build the post-industrial politics,” he said in an interview after the event, adding that the new politics would be “ground-up” and “based on communication.” Castellanos has served as a media consultant for seven presidential candidates. After advising the Bush campaign in 2004, Castellanos was the chief strategist for the presidential campaign...
...introduction to the speech, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan said Sen had earned the nickname “Mother Teresa of economics.” The talk drew a diverse audience, with many Law School students. Christel A. Green, a third-year law student, said she attended the event out of an interest in “economics and its effect on law and the best ways to help poor nations develop,” a subject that Sen has focused on for much of his career. In his lecture, Sen outlined the Enlightenment-era divergence in theories...
...stringent regulation of travel between the two countries. “How can we show the Cuban people there’s a different way to live if we cannnot travel there to begin with?” Mara I. Rodriguez ’08 said after the event. The recent graduate challenged Gutierrez, asking him why America’s relationship with communist China is different than its relationship with the communist island 90 miles off its shore. Gutierrez asked the audience to make Cuba’s human right violations the center of its attention and linked...
...Paulson knows this as well as anyone. He and his team had been working on his proposal for more than six months, in the event that more piecemeal approaches like the bailout of Bear Stearns or the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn't stop the bleeding. When things looked like they were headed for a crisis at the beginning of last week, he had a team up literally all night working with the Federal Reserve to frame a deliberately vague proposal that could make it through Congress. The key issue was to get something that could pass...