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Harvard is borrowing $480 million to refinance its debt and to fund capital projects on campus, including the construction of a new Harvard Law School building, according to a credit rating report released Friday by Moody's Investors Service...
What's more, unlike the situation at the height of the credit crunch, corporations are able to raise money from investors. On Tuesday alone, corporations sold $23.5 billion in bonds, making it the second most active day in debt sales by companies on record. In 2009, corporations issued $712 billion in investment-grade bonds, up from $646 billion...
...worst balance in a decade - compared with the Democratic National Committee's $13 million. The National Republican Campaign Committee, which works to elect Republicans to the House, was in even worse shape, with just $4.3 million on hand at the end of November and more than $2 million in debt (their Democratic counterparts ended November with a net of $12.7 million). In the Senate, Republicans ended the third quarter with $7.3 million, compared with $11.9 million for the Dems...
Warren has advocated for the middle class in Huffington Post columns and several books, including the 2000 release "The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt...
...police force that carried out his violent and, well, terrible orders. To facilitate their drunken revelry, Ivan opened kabaks, or taverns, that served vodka and other alcohol (no food). By 1648, with Russians developing a strong taste for drink, a third of the country's male population was in debt to the state-owned kabaks. When Moscow started collecting the debts, peasants responded by distilling and distributing vodka at home. (See the best pictures...