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...Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System...
...features the debut of what we hope will be another annuity: our ranking of the 10 Best College Presidents. These days, college presidents are no longer leaders of insular academic institutions. They are CEOs of knowledge businesses that spur the local and national economies and foster innovation on a global scale. Yes, they still do a lot of fundraising (which is even harder in a down economy), but every entrepreneur needs to do that, and the best college presidents are forward-looking entrepreneurs of education. At the center of the package is a profile of Ohio State University president...
...excellent historical returns of stocks are not limited to the U.S. Three U.K. economists - Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - have examined the historical stock and bond returns from 16 countries since 1901 and published their research in a book entitled Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns. Despite wars, bouts of hyperinflation and depressions, stock investors in all 16 countries examined enjoyed high returns that outpaced fixed-income assets...
...students selected have a variety of interests and plans of study. Finkton, a neurobiology concentrator in Quincy House, plans to use the scholarship to receive a Masters in Global Health and an MBA from the business school, spending part of his time doing development work in Africa...
...Coconut Creek, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale, is struggling to land stimulus-related projects in South Florida. He says federal and state officials managing the stimulus should relax bond requirements for smaller firms and DBEs, "or we're going to be out of the stimulus picture." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...