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...have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, Washington, Michigan...
...have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, WASHINGTON, MICH...
...suffering the losses. Many of the industry's biggest stars are licking their wounds this year. Last week, Tontine Partners, a formerly $10 billion hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn., told investors it had lost 65% of their money. Tontine's manager, Jeffrey Gendell, made Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2008 with an estimated net worth of $1 billion. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, which became one of the first hedge-fund companies to go public last November, recently reported that its Asia fund had fallen nearly 17% for the year. Even the fund of David Einhorn...
That's bad news for the many nonprofits and smaller foundations that depended on Lehman's largesse. Indeed, as the financial crisis takes down some of the richest houses on Wall Street, the effects will ripple out to the charities that rely on them and serve the poorest in America's big cities and the rest of the world. The stock-market crash has already damaged the endowments of big foundations, universities and hospitals, while charitable giving from ordinary citizens seems to have decreased out of financial fear...
While Grassley, from his perch as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has investigated the nation’s richest colleges and publicly called for a mandate, no actual legislation has been introduced...