Who's to blame for state's bad investments? - St. Petersburg Times
Story date: 2008-05-30 06:02:00
Added on: 2008-05-30 19:19:51
Story Tools In July and August of 2007, the state agency that manages billions of dollars in public investments bought at least $2.3-billion in securities from three Wall Street firms. Within just weeks, financial rating firms began downgrading those ...
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