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by Felix Salmon
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Jan 15 2009 9:05pm EDT

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Go public? What is Steel Partners thinking? It does seem like a most peculiar time for a hedge fund to go public.

Performance related pay for teachers: a dialectic: "Hypothesis: Teachers object to performance-related pay so strenuously precisely because they know how arbitrary, biased and unfair their own assessments of their students are."

Citigroup & Smith Barney: See Ya. It’s Been Real: "Citigroup never really integrated Smith Barney into the rest of the bank".

Citi's troubles send the cost of its default swaps soaring: In early trade, at least.

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