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...known around Harvard for teaching Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” was also featured with current New York City Ballet principals Tiler Peck, Joaquin de Luz and Robert Fairchild as part of the Guggenheim’s Works and Process outreach series, according to a Wall Street Journal blog post...
...Hopefully we’ll be fast, but we really hope that all the little things we’ve been working on all year will pay off: making sure that we’re holding our streamlines in the water, working our kicks off the wall, and those kinds of things...
...First President Obama proposed new taxes on big banks, blasting the "twisted logic" of Wall Street executives who keep awarding themselves giant bonuses while resisting government efforts to recoup the cost of their industry's bailouts. "Instead of sending a phalanx of lobbyists to fight this proposal or employing an army of lawyers and accountants to help evade the fee, I suggest you might want to consider simply meeting your responsibilities," the President warned...
...starting value of the CDS contracts when the bonds had fallen significantly in price. Other mortgage-bond insurers at the time were able to strike deals to tear up similar contracts and pay reduced prices. Some called the AIG payments, funded by the government, a backdoor bailout of Wall Street, in particular Goldman Sachs. Also at issue were the moves the Federal Reserve made to cover up the fact that AIG had paid out the contracts at par, which was the contract's full original amount. "Why shouldn't we ask for your resignation as Secretary of Treasury?" said John...
...very clear that the New York Fed was preoccupied with looking out for the interests of Wall Street at the expense of Main Street," says California Congressman Darrell Issa, a Republican, who questioned Geithner and others on Wednesday. "Given the circumstances and the fact that they were dealing with taxpayer dollars, the Fed had an obligation to try and secure the best deal possible for the taxpayers and instead brokered a deal that helped the rich get richer and then tried to cover...