In her testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor made a serious contradiction of her own testimony of her involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund , which was at the very least misleading. In addition, she appears to have contradicted the known facts of her involvement with the PRLDEF, based on the minutes of the Fund’s litigation committee that have been made available to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Fund for Our Economic Future has spent the past five years affecting the path of Northeast Ohio’s economy, laying a trail of money for groups willing to follow specific directives.

A partnership of regional institutions has pledged $16 million for a new venture capital fund to help promising startups in Northeast Ohio.

Three months after the government stepped in to prop up reeling money-market funds, the $3.8 trillion industry is largely healthy again, with money flowing back to the safe-harbor investments at a steady clip.

DES MOINES: To put it bluntly, tech stocks have been battered. The Nasdaq composite index has been cut nearly in half this year, falling more than 44 percent, but Allianz RCM Technology fund (RAGTX) manager Walter Price sees the potential for economic recovery in the second half of 2009

DES MOINES: To put it bluntly, tech stocks have been battered. The Nasdaq composite index has been cut nearly in half this year, falling more than 44 percent, but Allianz RCM Technology fund (RAGTX) manager Walter Price sees the potential for economic recovery in the second half of 2009. He says investors should prepare to capture the upside in coming months.