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Before coming to Harvard, Forst served as the global head of Goldman's investment management division, joining the bank's elite management company in 2004. He became a Goldman partner in 1998, Paulson's first year leading the firm...
...giving statements to reporters at the Capitol Thursday, though there is no evidence that Gibbs or any other top-level Obama campaign adviser was meeting behind closed doors with House or Senate members. And having Davis - a former lobbyist who is already under the microscope because of his firm's previous work for Freddie Mac - meeting with House members could undercut McCain's stance as an honest broker, especially considering he attacked Obama Friday for playing politics with the bailout negotiations...
...causes kidney stones, was added to boost the apparent protein content of milk that was increasingly scarce and of poor quality. "Demand was outstripping supply so rapidly in the market that [producers] tried every way to increase supply," says Philippe Chan, Asia manager for Canadean, a beverage industry research firm. "That resulted in lots of raw milk not being not stringently controlled...
Congressional critics of the Paulson-Bernanke bailout have demanded to rewrite the plan before approving it, clamoring for aid to struggling homeowners, limits on executive pay at firms getting federal help, perhaps even requiring Treasury to get an equity stake in a firm in exchange for its subpar assets. In the interview with Time on Sept. 24, Paulson said, "I believe that we're going to get a bill that works and a clean bill. It certainly won't be exactly what we asked for--it never is--but it's got to be sufficient...
...trillion in assets being managed from the glossy bank towers of Tryon Street, the city is now the nation's No. 2 financial center behind New York City. In early September, Bank of America, the behemoth of North Tryon and the largest U.S. bank, swallowed the beleaguered investment firm Merrill Lynch, while Wachovia, its competitor on South Tryon, considered a merger with Morgan Stanley. And while the rest of the country is sinking, Charlotte is soaring, with 28 construction cranes downtown. It's got the nation's least-battered metropolitan-housing market, lowest office-vacancy rates and fastest-growing airport...