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...Shark Tank airs on Sunday nights. It premiered in early August to weak ratings but has been picking up viewers recently. ABC's website says the show gives individuals the "access to the means to live out their dreams." Each week, entrepreneurs pitch their business ventures to the five "Sharks," who in addition to O'Leary include real estate executive Barbara Corcoran and Daymond John, the founder of clothing brand FUBU. Both ABC and Mark Burnett Productions declined to comment on O'Leary's past business dealings...
...filing comes as the debilitating recession, rising unemployment, a sharp pullback in business travel and weak consumer confidence have taken a crippling toll on hotels. In the first seven months of 2009, hotel occupancy was down 10.3% while average daily room rates are off 8.8%, according to Smith Travel Research (STR). At the same time, lodging stocks lost 80% of their value on average over the past year, although many have rallied back a bit in the past couple of months...
...Wall Street argues, albeit on weak ground, that the new model does in fact learn from the lessons of the last decade. In the mortgage-backed security market, subprime loans functioned as adversely selected “lemons,” and the mortgages most likely to fail were the ones most likely to compromise the integrity of the securitized assets. In this new market of life insurance securities, it is instead the healthy insurance candidates who are the liability. This time, to offer life insurance to the physically unhealthy—in other words, the “subprime?...
Finally, Harvard's (#4) write-up is weak. Incredibly weak. After Arizona State has 20 lines of commentary lavished upon it, Harvard, the Grandaddy of Them All, gets 24 words, total. In fact, here's the whole thing...
Finally, Harvard's (#4) write-up is weak. Incredibly weak. After Arizona State has 20 lines of commentary lavished upon it, Harvard, the Grandaddy of Them All, gets 24 words, total. In fact, here's the whole thing...