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As Facebook’s Stock Struggles, Fingers Start Pointing
May 22, 2012 | New York Times
Wall Street is playing the Facebook blame game. As shares of the social network tumbled in their second day of trading, bankers, investors and analysts wondered what had gone wrong with the initial public offering of Facebook, the most highly anticipated technology debut in years.
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Private Equity Investments Threaten Oregon Future Public Pensions
May 20, 2012 | The Oregonian
The river of profits welling from investments in private equity partnerships has long been a point of pride for Oregon's public pension managers. Oregon was the pioneer public investor in this asset class. But such concentration raises important questions for taxpayers, who backstop the Public Employee Retirement System's solvency when market returns lag.
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Why Have U.S. Jobs in Small Business Gone Missing?
May 16, 2012 | Washington Post/Bloomberg
Big business, we keep being told, has been so hampered by regulatory uncertainty it has been reluctant to hire workers. So it is surprising to read the results of a little-known survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Very large businesses, it turns out, have been expanding their workforces relatively rapidly. The data show that the overall weakness in the U.S. labor market reflects slow employment growth among smaller businesses,
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