Geopolitical – Week of 7.3.11

Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

Feel like a good cry? Check out the new U.S. Debt Clock. View . . .

By Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story Weeks after rescuing the American International Group with an $85 billion taxpayer loan in late 2008, Federal Reserve Board