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...Hockey Center. Despite outplaying the Wildcats through the last 25 minutes of play, Harvard gave UNH an opening when sophomore Liza Ryabkina drew a holding penalty with 1:21 left in extra time.The Wildcats seized the opportunity. UNH senior Sam Faber won a faceoff in the Crimson end, and fed the puck to junior Jenn Wakefield.With 39 seconds left, Wildcat sophomore Courtney Birchard received the puck in the right circle, and wristed it through a screen and into the back of the net to end the game.“Obviously, [we were] very disappointed in the outcome, because...
...very fortunate and privileged to be able to make a very nice living... But at the end of the day, people have to do different things: Your heart and soul will also have to be fed." - on why he left investment banking to go work for the USW, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January...
...animosity between these two competitors, the private Clearinghouse and the public Fed, ensured the failure of the Fed’s intervention in March 1933. At the beginning of March, $700 million were withdrawn from banks, plunging the Dow to only 50 points. In an effort to avoid further turmoil, New York Fed Governor George L. Harrison contacted Clearinghouse Chairman George W. Davison about declaring a bank holiday. With no incentives to act despite the damage this holiday might do to bank reputations, and with much criticism from an increasingly populist Congress, the Clearinghouse had no reason to partner with...
...Second, the plan proclaims that “private sector buyers [can] determine the price for current troubled and previously illiquid assets.” Why should private investment funds supply this capital? And why would private firms be any better at pricing these toxic securities, when the Fed has had no clear success in that endeavor over the past months...
...Both the 1933 panic and the current credit crisis yield the same message: strong, cooperative leadership from the Fed is the key to inspiring confidence in both consumers and major private sector actors. Like any executive action, this leadership demands rationale—a justification for others to invest. Geithner must look to the failures of his predecessors in order to succeed...