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...think they're going to go? I actually don't know who I would vote for. If I knew I was going to, I'd probably research more. I think I'd probably go for [Foreign Minister Tzipi] Livni, but I don't know...
...what is Strata worth today? Certainly not the original $20 million it's investors paid for it. According to research firm Markit, the average CDO tied to mortgage bonds lost half its value last year. CDOs based on corporate bonds have performed better. However, Strata sold insurance against high-yield corporate bonds, and those will be the first corporate debts to go bad if the economy gets worse. Indeed, one of the companies in Strata's bond pool, Hawaii Telcom Communications, recently filed for bankruptcy. In mid-January, Moody's put Strata on its list of bonds it was thinking...
...shortage of distant early-warning signs. The 11th chapter of the second working group of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for example, warned that fires in Australia were "virtually certain to increase in intensity and frequency" because of steadily warming temperatures over the next several decades. Research published in 2007 by the Australian government's own Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization reported that by 2020, there could be up to 65% more "extreme" fire-danger days compared with 1990, and that by 2050, under the most severe warming scenarios, there could be a 300% increase in such...
...Penny S. Pritzker ’81, a former Overseer, were named as advisors to president Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board in a press conference held in Washington on Friday. Feldstein, a former Reagan administration economist, served as President of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1977 to 2008. NBER studies the U.S. economy and is the well-respected authority on markers of recessions. Ferguson was the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1999 to 2006 and is currently serving in his final year as a member of the University?...
...financial crisis, Frenk wrote that the University had also issued a directive in December to freeze all salaries for faculty and non-union staff. In line with the University’s recommendations, the School of Public Health will form a committee to review the posting of non-research funded job posts. “This is indeed an opportunity to look at our staffing levels and structures, in order to make sure that they are as efficient and productive as possible,” Frenk wrote. Approximately 35 percent of the University’s operating budget is dependent...