He still makes less than Peyton Manning of the Colts (see p. 133), but the bump may undermine the tenuous "no superstars" policy that has served the Patriots so well.
H-P found that Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual harassment policy but determined that he violated its code of business conduct, including inaccurate expense reports that appeared to conceal a personal relationship with Ms. Fisher.
The authors excoriate the U.S. Fed under Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke for conducting a recklessly (and, we know, disastrously) expansionary monetary policy from 1995-2006, with money supply growth of 5.3 percent about inflation (p. 256 of the book).