This conversation didn’t happen, but it could have: Monseigneur Vivaldi: “Have you read that Pennsylvania grand jury report? Over three hundred priests accused of sex abuse! We’ve hit rock bottom! It can’t get any worse than this!” Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: “Hold my beer.” Yes, Viganò’s now notorious letter is rockin’ the church in ways…
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It’s not what you know, it’s whom you knew at Harvard
Via Ben Smith at Politico, Ira Stoll, at The Future of Capitalism, reviews Christine Ward’s Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street’s Bluff and explains how hedge fund manager William Ackman shook the Municipal Bond Insurance Association’s money tree with a little assistance from Marty Peretz, Eliot Spitzer, and Barney Frank. Money…