Interactive Chart: University Endowments' Debt
Schools across the U.S. have been struggling to dig themselves out of the hole created when the markets crashed. The ten largest endowment funds alone lost a combined $36 billion before the sinking markets began to stabilize in March 2009 and large US colleges and universities issued more than $7 billion in taxable bonds.
April 26, 2011
Gold bars are displayed for a photograph at Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K. K.'s store in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, June 26, 2009. Gold touched a two-week high and marked its first weekly gain since May as the dollar weakened and a benchmark lending rate touched a record low in London, increasing the metal's appeal as an alternative investment. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News
