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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
Galápagos Islands. Cameras are pointed at blue beaks and red gullet sacks, inflated like birthday balloons. Unfortunately, Martin Marks (MBA 6/’47), Esther’s companion of 25 years and an avid birder, is back on the ship, resting. It’s Day... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
Global Banking Turmoil Harvard professor and economist Kenneth Rogoff says it's far better to sell a bank than to bail it out. Bailouts for Everyone? Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, who served as Fed regulator, talks about the moral hazard and the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
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
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
the 1950s were purchased under this process called contract buying. My grandparents had to buy a home this way. They first bought their home and they were not allowed to get a mortgage. And so for the first four years, they were paying a white owner an View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
“Many of these jobs are in high demand,” says Fuller, “which means that apprenticeships play a critical role in training workers for the jobs of the future and providing businesses with a ready-made talent pipeline.” The second report explores the increase in academic... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Josh Harris (MBA 1990) attended NFL games at the old RFK Stadium in D.C. as a young child, and recalls being stunned by the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
right. If you see the kind of jobs they've been trained for, though the income level will almost remain the same, the inflation will grow faster than that. So as the time progresses, within a year or two or three, they will fall back into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
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, inflation averaged... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
management-labor relations with rising unemployment. Government's role in education, technology, and Hong Kong's competiveness is being reassessed. And the emphasis has shifted from asset inflation to deflation. The focus in Hong Kong now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
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 fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well, according to “Dismissed by Degrees: How... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
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 of the slumlords, those absentee owners who have long reigned... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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 living with a hangover from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
girls living on the streets to launch businesses, and Silbert found the work difficult but worthwhile. “It was the toughest job I’ve ever had,” she says, noting that inflation rose an astounding 40,000 percent in the eighteen months she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
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 issuer shopping for a higher rating, and the issuer paying View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without competition or transparency, which led to disastrous ratings inflation. In short, “The economic... View Details