Harvard Medical School’s “unrestricted funds would last only a decade if it decapitalized $300 million a year — the amount necessary to cover lost federal funding and the school’s annual deficit spending” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... - ThreadSky

mayasen.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Harvard Medical School’s “unrestricted funds would last only a decade if it decapitalized $300 million a year — the amount necessary to cover lost federal funding and the school’s annual deficit spending”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/17/harvard-endowment-explained/

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spin4srv.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seems like the ability to restrict tax-advantaged donations under all circumstances is not providing the social benefit intended.

samwang.bsky.social•1 day ago

Considering that endowments and federal grant money scale somewhat with respect to one another, I wonder if smaller, less well-funded institutions would also have a decade of cushion.

If everyone can sustain a decade-long siege, that's long enough for an effective fight - if we stick together.

itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social•1 day ago

The rainy day is here and it's raining fascism.

Fight or die are the choices.

boubayaga.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can the US dollar hold its value after a decade of authoritarian rule?

amadaus.bsky.social•1 day ago

They got a decade of funds? Then they are fine. They should hold out.

isayft.com•1 day ago

At 29,000 gallons, my indoor swimming pool only has enough water to stay usable through a 2 hour house fire. Wish we’d built a bigger pool.

danieltuke.bsky.social•1 day ago

If this lasts more than a decade, frankly, we’re pretty f’d anyways so who cares about the endowment

jerseypatrick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plus, the actuarial chance trumps will not have shuffled off this mortal coil by then is next to nil.

danieltuke.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤞

ricyrick87.bsky.social•1 day ago

*only* a decade? Sorry but we gotta do better with our framing here...I get that we're in crisis mode and everything is tinged with doomerism but 😅 that's TEN YEARS

thaddeusjames.bsky.social•19 hours ago

So if the choices are

A. Survive ten years without caving to fascism

B. Cave to fascism, without any guarantee of survival anyway

Then I'm picking A all day even if it's literally my life at stake, let alone some institution.

daveawayfromhome.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Are you telling me that Harvard doesn’t have enough big donors to make up for $300M a year? Wealthy individuals who would rally around the school when it was in trouble?
How many billions of dollars do Harvard alums pull in collectively every year?

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