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...bind. Do they push for the tighter levels of protection that might successfully preserve endangered species or do they accept what is politically feasible? "We suggest that most vulnerable species are not really being managed for viability," writes Traill. "Rather, conservation targets in most cases merely aim to maximize short-term [species] persistence and fit with complex political and financial realities...
Friday’s report, which follows Harvard’s announcement last month that its endowment had shrunk by 30 percent this past year, also reveals billions of dollars in losses sustained through the University’s investments of cash designated for short-term expenses...
This weekend, the Boston Globe’s article on Harvard’s financial report suggested that the University’s decision to invest short-term cash alongside higher-risk endowment assets was unusual, and cited Stanford spokeswoman Lisa Lapin as saying that her school “wouldn’t take a cash account and invest it with the endowment...
...prevent the school from meeting its existing obligations, and that the University’s cash position was secured by new debt issued by the school this year. Nevertheless, Shore said in an interview posted by Harvard that the school has adjusted its investment strategies to emphasize short-term flexibility and cash needs and will continue pursuing such “rebalancing efforts” in the future...
...Other Republicans, like economist Kevin Hassett, a former adviser to McCain's presidential campaign, say it might be better to focus on policy fixes that could have long-term impacts, not just short-term impacts. "You can have a stimulus every quarter from now until we go bankrupt," Hassett said. "But would that be good policy...