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...bombing of a National Guard bus or the January 5th bombing of a police graduation ceremony show that the insurgents do not enjoy the widespread popular support sometimes claimed but rather are resorting to fear-inducing attacks to cow the population into submission. Attacks on Iraqi civilians often yield as many casualties as an entire month’s combat operations for United States forces. Alternately kidnapping, beheading, blowing up, or shooting in the back of the head the people whose “hearts and minds” you are trying to win is not exactly a recipe...
...yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury rises to 6%; the federal funds rate ends the year...
Across all institutions, the survey reported “modest” changes in asset allocations, including an increase in high-yield bonds. But the top performing endowments decreased their investments in alternative strategies and fixed income, and increased their allocations to domestic and international equity, as well as cash...
Across all institutions, the survey reported “modest” changes in asset allocations, including an increase in high-yield bonds. But the top performing endowments decreased their investments in alternative strategies and fixed income, and increased their allocations to domestic and international equity, as well as cash...
...affluence will prime us for maintaining, or at least returning to, these bonds that we are forming now. Among others, one thing that my grandmother and many of her peers missed in their youth was the opportunity for independence and the meaningful non-familial, non-romantic relationships it can yield. And for now I’ll just hope that in the long run, we will use our relative independence to our—and our descendents’—advantage. And if not, well, we’ll always have the beach...