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...pyramid schemes after the fall of communism; when the schemes collapsed in 1997, investor outrage toppled the government. Still, Madoff's $50 billion scam would be the biggest ever--except to those who say the risky trading in mortgage-backed securities was a Ponzi scheme of its own. The price tag for that crisis is already in the hundreds of billions...
While Marshall declined to comment on the specifics of the transaction and the price of the transaction was not disclosed in records, Harvard Business School professor Arthur I. Segel said that real estate buyers and sellers’ use of separate corporations to transfer real estate is “not out of the ordinary” and may be used by buyers to shield their other assets from liability claims after the transfer...
...that’s legal or not, but from the perspective of tax assessing, if everyone did that, nobody would be able to assess any property,” Mattison said. “The whole reason all those records are public is because someone felt the sale price should be public. There should be that paper trail...
...Student-athletes are not paid; they are not vying for a contract extension or to increase their market price as a free agent. Many, as the NCAA likes to say, will turn pro “in something other than sports.” When a human being puts him or herself through the crucible that a sport can be, subjects him or herself to the mental and physical discipline and sacrifice, and puts his or her body on the line without a paycheck in sight, something deeper is at work. When I was growing up, we called this...
...problem, not the solution. We bet on the magic of the marketplace, but the magic proved illusory. Every major part of the economy - health care, energy, transportation, food and finance - is deeply troubled. Now we are ready to invite government back in to help solve our problems, if the price is right and the strategies are convincing. By spending more through government and treating government as a partner rather than an enemy of the private sector, we can potentially save vast sums in the long run through a more efficient health-care system, safer climate, more competitive economy and more...