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Calpers Hopes Riskier Bets Will Restore Its Health – DealBook Blog …

Calpers lost nearly $60 billion in the financial markets last year, which means it has a serious long-term shortfall. Joseph A. Dear, the fund’s new invesment head, thinks the cure is in hedge funds and beaten-down private equity.

A truly funny political comedy for our time | San Francisco Examiner

In the satirical comedy “In the Loop,” political players engage in a whirlwind of strategizing, machinating, bullying, blundering, brownnosing and extreme swearing as people with power gear up to green-light or nix a Middle Eastern war.

PolitiFact | One health insurance company turned a profit, but not …

President Barack Obama has often argued that health insurance companies need more competition, and he’s proposed a public option for health insurance to provide it. “There have been reports just over the last couple of days of insurance …