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...taking the foundation stone out of a skyscraper.” That said, these bailouts highlight major issues with our current financial system at large. The risk-laden, unregulated environment in which these companies—such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and a host of other Wall Street firms??have been operating is completely unacceptable. While we do not support unbridled regulation of the market, in some instances it is indeed necessary. Government oversight is particularly important in sectors and for companies that have a broad and direct impact on everyday Americans. Look to the sub-prime...
...down loan interest rates that were artificially inflated by guaranteed business for lenders.Despite the benefit of such regulations, they weaken many state regulations. After securing millions in settlements from corporations like Citibank and Sallie Mae, the federal lender, Cuomo was able to persuade dozens of universities and student lending firms??even some outside New York—to adhere to a “code of conduct.” This state-regulated code prohibited schools and lenders from sharing revenues, mandated disclosure of university-lender relationships, restricted how “preferred lenders” should...
...addition, Bok wrote that Harvard’s holdings in these firms was too small to have any sway over the behavior of the firms?? executives, and that using the school’s funds to make a political statement endangered the intellectual freedom of the University...
...this university runs on, and we have to fund it,” says David A. Weitz, a physics professor who directs Harvard’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Weitz says the University may have to turn to private-sector sources—including venture capital firms??more frequently in the future as federal agencies tighten their purse strings...
...policy prohibiting faculty from owning stock in companies that fund their research is just one of Harvard Medical School’s many conflict-of-interest restrictions. Medical School affiliates also cannot hold most kinds of management positions at for-profit biomedical firms??even if their own research is not linked to the businesses...