In my dreams I wish we had infinite funding for research, but we don't.
"An unlimited budget would be a liability," Ken Loach once told me when I asked what he would do with infinite funding.
It boasts of near-infinite funds, goals to hire 1,000 people by March and an emphasis on consultants and MBAs– not people versed in the local market.
Hence, even if funding were infinite, controlling for all threats is not a proposition.
Now, a long-living baby boom generation, rapidly fluctuating global markets and municipal bankruptcies are blowing holes in the notion that for public pension funds, time is infinite.
"Yet we are all too familiar with the difficulties of allocating a finite amount of funding across seemingly infinite project opportunities".
When you scan your Tinder hookup's bookshelf for Infinite Jest, that's NEA funding.
Then, as a solution, he told me to take care of it myself instead by picking out a fund from a basically infinite list.
"The beautiful thing about mutual funds was that they gave you infinite liquidity," said Robert F. Whitelaw, a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Subjects covered in Infinite included his struggles with raising his newborn daughter, Hailie Jade Scott Mathers, on limited funds.
