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Why universities act like investment firms

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Higher education is really just a convenient side hustle for elite asset management. Many prestigious universities sit on multi-billion dollar endowment funds that are aggressively invested in private equity, venture capital, and complex derivatives, making their actual educational operations look like a very minor distraction from their core financial objectives.

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