Inflation and Deflation - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?

ago, that some of my return was due to inflation, and that government arguably bore some responsibility for that inflation. But when I dug a little further, I found that over the three years my investment was at risk, View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff

politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

one economic lesson from the crisis is that government support really works. Look at where we are today with inflation and supply chain problems—I’m not saying those are good things, but we certainly are not... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

designate a knowledgeable person, independent of both issuers and rating agencies, to select a rating agency for the bond issuer and negotiate a rating fee. This would eliminate the two worst abuses: the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

list of chores and challenges. How does he handle the pressure? "I sleep like a baby," Frazier smiles. "I'll sleep for two hours, then wake up and start crying for two hours." Frazier's sense of humor,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real

contemplating our 25th Reunion isn't so much our two years in those United NationsÐlike Aldrich classrooms, or the upcoming reunion itself, but how much has changed in the interim. We have gone from the days (begun with that awful vending-machine coffee) of pocket... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt

discussion. Even so, he continued, it's good to keep the situation in perspective. When he graduated in the early 1980s, unemployment was around 12 percent, inflation was close to 15 percent, and interest... View Details

13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

didn’t follow smaller developers who flip houses, renovating and selling them quickly, often further inflating housing prices. And he definitely did not follow in the footsteps... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference

Ivy League credentials, Ovia decided to chart a different path. Two years ago, the leadership team, including cofounder and CEO Paris Wallace (MBA 2007), dropped all degree requirements for new hires and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

government support as well, with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act creating new tax credits for carbon capture. And, in December, the Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of prizes and programs... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

afterward, which only had the effect of inflating subsequent bubbles, most notably the housing bubble that came as a result of the easy money. So he’s just been unaware of the impact of his encouragement, View Details