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...turmoil has some questioning not just hedge-fund performance of late, but also the industry's essential business model. Hedge funds employ a dizzying array of investment strategies, from reliance upon superstar managers who preside like Delphic oracles to the use of byzantine computer algorithms that pick out minute pricing discrepancies and take advantage of them. The profits on these transactions may be small, but funds multiply them many times over by leveraging their investors' capital. This strategy can go awry - as it did spectacularly in 1998 when Long Term Capital Management, a giant U.S. fund whose founders included...
...looked down upon the artwork all the time [from my office window]. It’s amazing how many young skateboarders and hipsters around Harvard Square are aware of Shepard Fairey’s work...
First, though, Paulson felt called upon to defend what he has done. "The actions taken by Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC in October have clearly helped stabilize our financial system," he began. "Before we acted, we were at a tipping point." He's right about that. We'll never know just what horrors we might have tipped into (Paulson's less-than-evocative phrase for what could have been was "broad systemic event"). But it's clear that financial markets are much calmer - if not happier - than they were in early October...
...required intensity of concentration on game occurrences, can easily lead to that same best-friend mentality. More dangerous, cheering also results in a large amount of name and face-recognition that is often not returned.Being the only current Harvard student combining Crimson sportswriting with Crimson cheerleading has bestowed upon me a mental directory of Harvard’s athletes, the likes of which could only be achieved by someone spending hours every day utilizing each of the aforementioned means of creeping. This may not seem to be the most alarming of situations, but when you throw a bit of personal...
Editor's Note: Upon the publication of this article on Nov. 12, 2008, a major source in the article claimed that the author of the piece had made an agreement with him that was henceforth broken. Consequently, editors at The Crimson determined that it would be appropriate to alert readers' attention to an addendum written by the author, explaining in finer detail the circumstances of the agreement she had made with her source at the time of the article's reporting...