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...there's a true insight into this mess if you just step back and consider the bigger picture, not just AIG. Regardless of the details of the various swap contracts, they all represent potential transfers of wealth between financial institutions. If we consolidated the entire financial sector, all these debts would effectively vanish...
...problem with keeping the swaps on the banks' books is that their potential payoff or loss is random, depending on the particular details of the contract and various outcomes in the world. Moreover, banks today are risk-averse and often factor worst-case scenarios into current pricing. Thus, they are far more likely to claim losses than profits on such instruments...
Rooming: Exposing. Dunster is notorious for its walkthroughs. Sure, you'll probably have a "single" all four years, but understand that you'll likely end up in the common room, all of your private thoughts and feelings unpackaged for all to see. You will be caught in various states of undress by your roommate, and you will always say "Why don't we just go to your room" after that particularly boozy shindig. But there are some nice suite arrangements for upperclassmen where common rooms can finally be used for their intended purposes...
...University’s unprecedented fiscal challenges. The move “comes after we have frozen salaries for faculty and non-union staff this year and offered a voluntary early retirement program in order to lower compensation costs,” he said. Additional confusion has arisen after various custodial workers reported that they had been notified of their termination—even though they were not on preliminary lists of workers to be cut provided by the subcontractors, Becker said. But he added that the Union has procedures established to address potential mistakes—including compensation...
...doubt recognize the names of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah when scanning Forbes' latest list of "The World's Billionaires." But amid the various business tycoons, A-list celebs and royal heirs on the annual roll call is someone known mainly by members of Mexico's seedy underground and the police officers who chase them: Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman Loera. (Read "Mexico Exports its Drug Wars to Guatemala...