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Bick says the project began with the concept of putting Harvard Student Agencies?? Let’s Go guidebooks on the iPhone, starting with the Unofficial Guide to Harvard. Students can access the Guide’s contents through an interactive interface...
...have scrutinized this sentiment over the past year, debating the role that credit-rating agencies played in the subprime crisis. Instead of the blame game it used to be, this debate has recently become a more fruitful discussion between the public and private sectors—policymakers and rating agencies??about how to better design the process of rating securities and minimize conflicts of interest. “The status quo isn’t good enough,” said SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro at a roundtable discussion on the subject last week. While some problems with...
...contenders—from city, county, state, federal, and tribal government agencies??were chosen after several rounds of evaluation by policy experts on the basis of four criteria: novelty, significance, effectiveness and transferability, said Emily C. Kaplan, the competition’s program assistant...
...housing” is not a concern unique to urban areas. Rural spaces are alternately administered by programs of the Department of the Interior, such as the Bureau of Land Management, and by those of the Department of Agriculture, such as the Forest Service. A whole mishmash of special agencies??not to mention state and local programs—fill the interstices...
...interview after a panel about the partnership between government and business, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission William H. Donaldson spoke about two regulations he viewed as absolutely necessary in the aftermath of the financial crisis: regulating the credit rating agencies??which he said didn’t pay enough attention to liquidity standards—and regulating exchanges of swaps and other derivatives, assets whose value is based on the value of other assets...