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Several prominent bank analysts came out with statements yesterday saying that the largest U.S. financial firms would post more heavy losses and that their accounting methods would obscure the worst of it. George Soros, the grand old man of the hedge fund business, repeated his belief that the banks are insolvent. If he is right, earnings are irrelevant...
...taxpayers, we fund the health care of our elected officials. Maybe it is time to strip the coverage of those officials who kowtow to lobbies and show no interest in mending this situation. David Walker, Dartmouth, Mass...
...ultimate irony is that I’m going to be working for a hedge fund next year that owns most of the paintball manufacturing factories in the country,” he said...
...addition to receiving $5.2 million in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw and $2.7 million in speaking fees, former Harvard President and professor Lawrence H. Summers also received nearly $600,000 in salary from the University this past year—only slightly less than what he was earning prior to his 2006 resignation as Harvard’s head.According to White House public financial disclosure reports—available because Summers now serves as director for President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council—Summers received $586,996 in salary as the Charles W. Eliot University...
...Haiti, successfully raising over $40,000 dollars for Harvard-affiliated international healthcare organization Partners in Health (PIH), according to Karen Fritsche, the walk’s co-founder. This year’s theme was “Housing for Haiti,” as 100 percent of the funds will be used to rebuild homes in Haiti, where land and infrastructure were devastated by two hurricanes last summer, Fritsche said. She estimated the three-mile walk along the Charles River raised enough money to build at least eight houses. In previous years, money raised has been used to purchase...