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The note of satire in Penn's performance is a hedge against the reverence that dampened such jazz sagas as Bertrand Tavernier's 'Round Midnight (1986), while the gorgeousness of the playing is a hedge against the satire.
Rubin's suggestions, described by the Post , include a middle path: require hedge funds to disclose more about their activities.
6. "Michael Berger, founder of the Manhattan Investment hedge fund, admitted last Friday that he had been lying about his annual performance to investors in his fund for the past four years.
Essentially, the hedge fund took huge bets with borrowed money--although its capital base was only a couple of billion dollars, we now know that it had placed wagers directly or indirectly on the prices of more than a trillion dollars' worth of assets.
In fact, Rothschild's original book seems to hedge its bets: It spends a full chapter ("Japan's Secret Weapon") explaining how government-business cooperation makes the Japanese economy invincible (remember, the book was published in 1990).