Aug. 30, 1988. The searing Mojave Desert. About 2,400 U.S. Marines conduct night maneuvers near the Twentynine Palms Base in California. Among them is Jason Rother, a 19-year-old lance corporal shipped in from North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune for a special training exercise. While most of the Marines directing convoys are posted around the desert in pairs, Rother, inexplicably, is sent out to guide troop movements without an assigned buddy.
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llana Weinstein, founder of the The IDW Group, is a tour de force within the hedge-fund industry. She recruits top-level talent for the world’s most prestigious investment firms, including hedge fund managers, family offices and private equity funds. Weinstein recently sat down with Business Insider’s hedge fund reporter, Rachael Levy, for a wide-ranging interview about the industry. She says there are still things that surprise her, even after 15 years of recruiting for every aspect of the industry. Read More...
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, TIME’s 2009 Person of the Year, has finally released a long awaited memoir of his time in office. The tome, titled The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath, covers everything from how he helped manage the financial crisis to why partisan politics left the Fed holding the bag for the recovery and what he might have done differently in retrospect. Bernanke spoke to TIME about his most challenging moments in office, as well as the good, the bad, and the ugly he had to content with on both Wall Street and in Washington. Read More...
