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...Michigan game, which wasn't easy. Since the TV blocked the shelves that held my cable box, I had to wedge my arm between the LaserVue and the entertainment center to get the remote to work. But once we had the game on, it was worth the slight bruising: the colors were sensational and bright; the players, larger than life. I had lugged a pair of speakers up from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail...
...invested $1 million in Andrew Weiss' hedge fund when he opened it in 1991, your stake would now be worth $14 million. But it's not just these stellar returns that have made Weiss one of the best investors of our era. He's also shown a gift for dodging financial bullets - a handy trait at a time when so many once-swaggering investors are bleeding. The flagship fund at his Boston-based company, Weiss Asset Management, hasn't suffered a single losing year in 17 years. Even amid the carnage of 2008, he has eked out a small profit...
Already this election season, concerns about the economy have trumped those about the environment. The 2008 Presidential election was supposed to be the first one in which global warming would be the front-and-center issue, but that hasn't been the case. (Though it is worth noting that for the first time, both candidates are on record supporting cap-and-trade legislation for greenhouse gases...
...Wyss, whose net worth is estimated at $6 billion by Forbes magazine, made his fortune from Synthes, a Swiss-based medical device company. He stepped down as chief executive of the company last year in order to devote more time to his philanthropic pursuits. He now heads the Wyss Foundation, which gives money to environmental causes, including scholarships to students doing graduate work in land conservation...
...told by the facts? Unemployment now exceeds 6 percent in the United States but it declined by 159,000 in September. In France, for example, the unemployment rate was nine percent (or more) in nine out of the last 12 years. As the U.S. outlook worsens, it is worth remembering how other, comparable countries are performing...