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...Summers had spent the past several months deciding between three opportunities at traditional financial conglomerates and smaller hedge funds. “He had no scarcity of offers,” Sperling said. “Larry has always been very valuable and highly sought after by the private sector.” D. E. Shaw, which has no Boston office, employs 1,000 staffers worldwide and manages a portfolio of about $25 billion. The famously secretive firm is known for its complex mathematical investment models as well as its nontraditional workforce. Its staff includes a Jeopardy champion, a former...
...subsidies" have been paid out three times since 2001. At €500 million a time, it's a hugely expensive way to deal with a market imbalance. And the European Commission is determined that it should stop. In June, the Commission published proposals for sweeping changes to the wine sector aimed at eliminating surpluses and making wine producers more competitive. Among the key measures it's proposing are the grubbing up of 400,000 hectares of vines over the next five years in order to stop overproduction; a simpler labeling system to make European wine more attractive to consumers...
...post their tasting notes online. But South Africa, too, is now facing a squeeze. The global wine glut has caused a drop in grape prices, and producers had to scramble to deal with a 50% appreciation in the rand between 2002 and 2005 that pushed them out of the sector in which they initially made their name: cheap and cheerful supermarket wines for the U.K. That hurts, but the glut's impact isn't as severe as it is in Australia or France. The South African solution has been to stake out the middle ground, where it hopes...
...near historic lows. The military fights valiantly and enjoys the backing of the entire nation. It is just the government that is not holding up its end of the bargain, and those of us interested in politics are sick of the rest of society having to drag the public sector along as dead weight. This, in part, explains the oft-noted lack of radicalism among most of the IOP’s students. Our times are not Kennedy’s times—for the most part, we don’t need a government that fosters a civil...
...eschews the index-like mentality of many green funds and opts for small, fast-growing companies that are "green or clean." One such holding is Fuel Tech, which supplies pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping...