Valerie Jarrett has stayed as others in the Obama administration have planned their departures to places such as Chicago or Harvard. None of the others have Jarrett’s job history with Barack Obama. Now, with a tough mid-term election closing in, what advice does this senior White House adviser and assistant to the president have for [...]
Crispin Odey, one of London’s most vocal hedge fund managers, is no longer enamored of Barclays and is now placing his bets on Lloyds Banking Group. Mr. Odey booked a 28 percent return on the back of Barclays last year, The Telegraph reported. But now, Mr. Odey, whose flagship European fund is down 10.56 percent [...]
Hope. Obama ran on it. Harvey Milk advocated for it. And for many, it’s the one thing they can’t grasp at all. Thursday, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality issued the disturbing results of a survey: More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids who have [...]
Bigger actually may be better — at least when it comes to hedge funds. Bridgewater Associates, already the biggest United States-based hedge fund, pulled in more new money in the first half of 2010 than any of its rivals, the industry magazine AR said in its annual Billion Dollar Club survey of American hedge funds [...]
My colleague Suzi Parker “never wanted to be married,” and through her long career as a reporter has been happily single. But until recently she says she “didn’t know I was a trendsetter.” It turns out Suzi (who reports on Lady Gaga’s political movement for Politics Daily) is even trendier than we all suspected.The convention [...]
Fifty years ago in Chicago, on Sept. 26, 1960, an enervated and emaciated Richard Nixon spent the day in seclusion in his suite at the Pick-Congress Hotel. The GOP presidential nominee’s contact with the outside world was mostly limited to a phone call from his running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, who warned Nixon to avoid [...]
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