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...President Obama, in an interview on 60 Minutes, indicated that cooler heads were prevailing. Although he took pains to take AIG and Wall St.'s actions to task, he also suggested that the proposed bill from Congress would use the tax code to penalize a specific subset of people and would be contrary to good public policy. "Well, I think that - as a general proposition, you don't want to be passing laws that are just targeting a handful of individuals. You want to pass laws that have some broad applicability. And as a general proposition, I think you certainly...
...Many of the best traders and analysts on Wall St. have left their firms to avoid pay restrictions like the ones imposed on AIG executives. These traders have decamped to hedge funds and private equity firms. In their new jobs, they can take advantage of the government's programs to buy newly financed assets and, if the value of that paper improves along with the market's liquidity, the profits from the transactions could be stupendous. As the value of toxic assets comes full circle, many of the people who helped break the system can make huge sums while they...
...team that plans to bring the economy out of the recession is a bit like a traveling circus. Once every few days, it stops on Wall St., the metaphor for all of the troubled banks, brokerages, insurance companies, and pension funds. Then it rolls off to Washington or Detroit, depending on where the next announcement of new stimulus programs is to be made. Over the last several months it has bounced from place to place and there may never be an end to that...
Three Crimson wrestlers traveled to St. Louis, Mo. for the NCAA championships this past weekend and one proved more at home than the rest. Junior co-captain Louis Caputo took advantage of a supportive atmosphere in his native “Show Me State” to outwrestle his seed and claim All-American honors for the second time in his career...
...very pleased to have accomplished our highest finish since we won the title in 2006,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “It was also quite remarkable that we only sent nine fencers, and we were still able to compete and beat teams like St. John’s, who sent eleven. Doing that was special...