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...Warren Buffett has been busy buying private companies, including The Pampered Chef, a kitchenware retailer, and apparel maker Garan (of Garanimals fame). That's promising. It suggests a value gap between the private and public markets because Buffett finds most common stocks still overvalued. Meanwhile, private-asset funds are a contrarian's delight: net new investment in venture-capital funds, which mainly seed technology and medical start-ups, plunged to $1.9 billion last year (the least since '81) amid investment losses that roughly tracked the public markets. Yet over three years and longer, these funds have outperformed stocks. "The tourists...
...Warren said the group is currently supporting two bills in the state House of Representatives. One bill would allow mental health rehabilitation for prisoners who attempt suicide or self-mutilation rather than extending their prison sentences, he said. The other would require the state Department of Corrections to publish statistics on how many prisoners eventually return to prison following their initial release, according to Warren...
...stated goal of the bill is to remove all existing regulations on prisoners within solitary confinement,” said HPAG Legislative Director Previn Warren. “That basically means prison guards throughout the state will be able to place prisoners at whim within solitary confinement without observing due process. It’s really dangerous and really scary...
...Warren, who is testifying in front of the committee tomorrow, said that though the bill was likely to emerge from committe, HPAG has already met with state Senate leadership to encourage them to block the bill after it leaves the committee...
...though a large anti-war rally at Government Center may have detracted attention from HPAG’s protest, Warren said he was happy with the results...