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...those countries in recent weeks to make his case, he has yet to secure the loans needed to avoid a default on Pakistan's debt. Pakistani officials insist that they have no intention of defaulting, and the Pakistani rupee rose this week amid signs that the International Monetary Fund might step in to rescue this frontline state in the war on terror. The IMF confirmed Wednesday that it would soon enter discussions with Pakistan over ways to assist its economy. But help from the international community will almost surely be conditional on a more robust effort against the militants...
...name for these moments, both positive black swans (the rise of the Internet) and negative ones (the 9/11 attacks). Taleb has argued that much of the recent market turmoil has been due to the inability of financial risk models to account for such black swans; meanwhile, the fund he advises, Universa Investments LP, has gained upwards of 50% this year on the back of strategies intended to manage them. Taleb talked to TIME about the market crisis we should've seen coming, how it happened and what to do next...
...synchronizing swimming styles is easier said than done. Despite being the global cheerleader for a united response to the crisis, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday announced that France would be creating its own national sovereign fund to buy stocks in troubled private companies. On Tuesday, Germany had rejected Sarkozy's call to create a European-wide sovereign fund that could prevent Europeans waking up "to find European companies belong to non-European capital, bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage...
Gordon said that one of the ways that Harvard hopes to increase technology transfer for the engineering and physical sciences is to create a dedicated program similar to the Accelerator Fund for the Life Sciences, which provides funding for promising, but early-stage discoveries that need “proof-of-concept” validation before venture capital or other industrial partners will make a significant investment and develop it for commercialization...
...directors, in the spirit of student-administrator collaboration, took notes on some of the ideas, which included a fund for student sustainable entrepreneurship and a unified directory of on-campus environmental research...