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...three steps to ease the current crisis and avert the potential for a global disaster. The first is to scale-up the dramatic success of Malawi, a famine-prone country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and high-yield seeds. Malawi's harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion in all. Such a fund could fight hunger as effectively as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS...
...Many departments also have ongoing searches for new faculty which could yield as many as 40 new professors by the end of the year, and the cutback will give FAS time to “absorb” these hires, Smith said...
Even a disciplined approach, though, allows wiggle room to get more or less aggressive. Right now it pays to play things safe, says Richard Bernstein, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch: "There is nothing wrong with cash." Yet be warned: yields on money-market funds and bank CDs are low and going lower. Don't plan on holding lots of cash for more than six months. One good option, says Bernstein, is Treasury bonds, which on a total-return basis have outperformed stocks in five of the past eight years--a first since the Depression. He believes that trend will...
Investor Wilbur Ross called attention to the "relatively unparalleled" values in the muni-bond market in March, when he revealed a $1 billion position. Muni yields almost never beat Treasury yields because both are considered safe, but the income from munis is tax exempt. That anomaly occurred earlier this year, and even though some order has been restored, muni yields remain historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed...
...Along with promoting France's modern cultural works, Abanel is also looking to protect significant French economic interests in the arts sector, which currently employs around 50,000 people across 10,000 companies. Public auctions yield around $2 billion in annual business, and Albanel estimates that sales between private parties represents as much as $10 billion per year. But while the French art market has been growing by around 13% a year, others are growing faster...