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...Staff writer Alan G. Ginsberg can be reached at aginsber@fas.harvard.edu...
...comforting investment for fretting consumers and a driver of consumer spending itself, a big bump elsewhere in the economy in 2003 could be housing's downfall. If stocks roar back this spring, capital inflows could steal from the bond market, pushing up long-term interest rates. Or Alan Greenspan and the Fed could do the same to short-term rates, as a way to hit the brakes on a recovery that is heating up too fast...
...country, no matter how you measure it: in total numbers, the rate at which women choose abortion or the percentage of pregnancies that end in abortion. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of abortions dropped 18%, from an estimated 1.6 million a year to 1.3 million, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that both sides of the debate rely on for data. Twelve years ago, about 27 women out of every 1,000 of childbearing age had had an abortion; by 2000, the number fell to just over 21. And whereas 28% of those who found...
...mathematical logic underpinning the plan is already stirring controversy. Hubbard and Friedman are making a huge and controversial macroeconomic bet that deficits don't matter, effectively reversing a decade of policymaking. "This Administration is trying to change the whole intellectual basis for fiscal policy that Alan Greenspan enforced when deficits were large in the early 1990s," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com a research firm. "We got fiscal discipline through the idea that deficits matter. That's been flipped on its head...
...similarities run deeper, as she joins a circle of Summers staffers—including Chief of Staff Marne Levine, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone and Special Assistant Michael O’Mary ’99-’00—with backgrounds in and job descriptions drawn from the world of government...