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Summers Says Powell's Neutral-Rate Call 'Wishful Thinking'
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's assessment on Wednesday that the Fed had already reached a "neutral" setting is "analytically indefensible" in the face of rising inflation. "It's the...
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Abenomics Legacy
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers comments on the legacy of Shinzo Abe and says the world will study Abenomics when secular stagnation returns.
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BRAZIL: AIDS CONFERENCE DISCUSSES FEARS OF EPIDEMIC IN LATIN AMERICA
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There are now an estimated one point six (m) million people living with the H-I-V virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
But AIDS researchers are worried about the possibility of future epidemics - especially among...
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RUSSIA: 1ST DEPUTY PM ANATOLY CHUBAIS ATTACKS PARLIAMENT
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Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister, Anatoly Chubais, used his first day at the helm on Friday to launch a new attack on the Russian Parliament.
With Viktor Chernomyrdin on holiday, Chubais prepared the ground for what's...
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CLEAN : Donald Trump calls Iraq Harvard of terrorism
CLEAN : Donald Trump calls Iraq Harvard of terrorism
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Harvard's Burns Sees Trump Trip as Tale of Two Cities
May.30 -- Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns examines President Trump's first overseas trip and the state of relations between the U.S. and Europe. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
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Harvard's Rogoff Says U.S. in High State of Dysfunction
Jul.20 -- Harvard University Professor Kenneth Rogoff talks about the current state of the U.S. government and economy. He speaks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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Summers Hopes More CEOs Will Back Away From Trump
Aug.16 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers discusses his call for chief executive officers to resign from President Donald Trump's advisory councils. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Bloomberg Markets: European...
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Harvard's Foreign Farmlands Prove to Be Trouble
Sep.06 -- Harvard University’s holdings in developing markets have proved to be more trouble than they’re worth. Bloomberg's Michael McDonald has more on "What'd You Miss?"
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Lawsuit: Harvard profits from photos of slaves
Harvard University has "shamelessly" turned a profit from photos of two 19th-century slaves while ignoring requests to turn the photos over to the slaves' descendants, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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Harvard's Reinhart Says Economy in 'Sweet Spot,' Rates Have 'Rock Bottom Feel'
Jan.22 -- Harvard Kennedy School Professor Carmen Reinhart discusses the current state of the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve monetary policy. She talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Jonathan Ferro at the World Economic Forum’s annual...
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Bernanke AEA Speech Last Hurrah for Central Bankers, Says Summers
Jan.09 -- Lawrence H. Summers, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, dismisses Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's optimism for central bankers in a recent speech to the American Economic Association. He spoke with David Westin on...
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U.S. is not pursuing "strategy with a rational foundation" in dealing with outbreak: Summers
May.01 -- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, warns that U.S. Leadership in reopening the economy is too optimistic because conditions required to return to normalcy have not been met. He cautions that the Fed's support...
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CLEAN : In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight
Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight of killer diseases such as Ebola, Lassa fever -- and now...
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Dollar Fluctuations Not a Big Issue, Summers Says
Sep.11 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor and adiser to Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden, says that he can see investors not wanting to hold U.S. assets in the event of a...
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Harvard President Suspects Everyone Will Wear a Mask on Campus in Fall
Jun.02 -- Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow talks about what campus life will be like in the fall. He says colleges will be very different with fewer students sitting in lecture halls and staggered times for eating in dining...
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Story of This Week Was Re-convergence Towards Sanity: Summers
Jun.12 -- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, says that the volatility in markets this week reflects recognition that the U.S. economy faces a long road to recovery. He commends Fed Chair Powell's measured approach to...
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Economies that reopened sooner are not better off: Summers
May.22 -- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, looks at Sweden as an example of an economy that did not see any material benefit from keeping its businesses open through the outbreak. He also cautions that people's fear...
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What Janet Yellen Brings to the U.S. Treasury
Nov.24 -- Harvard Professor Jason Furman recalls his days working for Janet Yellen at the Council of Economic Advisors and looks at her experience as she will reportedly be nominated as the next U.S. Treasury secretary by President-elect...
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Investors Should be Concerned About Inflation: Tett
Jan.15 -- Financial Times Editorial Board Chair Gillian Tett says investors should be concerned about inflationary pressures, because of growth that could come from both vaccine distribution and a big stimulus package. She joins David...
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Summers: Constricting Fed's Ability to Act is 'Height of Foolishness'
Nov.20 -- ormer U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor and adviser to President-elect Joe Biden's campaign, says that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's decision to ask the Federal Reserve to return...
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Labor Shortage Is Harbinger of Inflation: Summers
Apr.30 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that labor shortages in the service industry and in small businesses point to inflation, because the turnover in the labor force matches...
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University Endowments Change the Way They're Investing
Aug.17 -- David Rubenstein takes a look at how colleges are changing the way their endowments are run on the latest episode of "Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein."