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...point will follow a great new opportunity, like the presidential forum and the possibilities it embodies. I ask Warren what Bible verse he will take into the forum, and he quotes David's words after God has secured his position as the King of Israel - "Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me so far?" - and David's subsequent realization that God did it for the sake of His word and according to His will. It is a humble response, one that puts Warren's elevation, like David's, in the Deity...
Flush with profits from huge oil and gas reserves, sovereign wealth funds like Mubadala have been on quite a spree of late, particularly in the U.S. Eager to reduce Abu Dhabi's economic dependence on energy, Mubadala has bought stakes in chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and private equity giant the Carlyle Group; another sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, paid $7.5 billion to become Citigroup's largest shareholder; and this month the Abu Dhabi Investment Council offered $800 million for a 90% stake in Manhattan's iconic Chrysler Building, pictured above...
...being destroyed and have no hope," Moreno-Ocampo told me a few days before he announced his indictment. "Maybe you can be part of the cover-up. The prosecutor cannot be part of the cover." How Moreno-Ocampo won the authority to indict a sitting President of a sovereign country is an epic of justice vs. realpolitik, of a determined prosecutor's battle against "we-know-better" diplomacy and of small countries banding together to tell the big powers, "You are wrong...
Early last Winter, when the west was suffering the first casualties of the credit crisis, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) rode to the rescue, providing over $40 billion in capital to some of the largest of the faltering U.S. and European banks. The U.S. government - reluctant to bail out banks directly - welcomed this infusion, even though SWFs are investment arms of foreign governments and American politicians are often suspicious of outsiders acquiring stakes in key domestic assets. So instead of a bailout of financial institutions by American taxpayers, we saw a foreign-funded bailout...
...aggressively pushing China to open up its banking system and financial markets to U.S. companies, regulators have been reluctant to issue licenses for Chinese state banks to open branches on American soil. While this impasse may be resolved, Washington's protectionist stance might make Chinese banks and sovereign funds less likely to invest in U.S. firms...