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...fundamental questions Paul Ingrassia, a Pulitzer Prize--winning former Detroit bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, explores in his treatise on U.S. carmakers' rise, fall and hoped-for resurrection. It was quite a fall. Throughout much of the 20th century, companies like Ford helped build the American middle class. For part of the 1990s, Detroit trounced its Japanese rivals in the SUV business. But then U.S. automakers, essentially, got lazy. Their war with the auto unions didn't help. Nor did the rise of the likes of Toyota. By the autumn of 2008, the Big Three CEOs had rushed...
Burt, whose course offerings for the spring semester include an English seminar on 21st century American poetry, said that his interest in contemporary poetry is two-fold...
While the news media disseminates a ton of financial information with the intention of informing the public, the barrage of numbers, pompous words, and economic jargon (no-load index funds, moderate growth fund, treasury-inflation protected securities) often tunes the average American out. While many Harvard students read the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times on occasion, some religiously, not everyone is the average Harvard student...
...money, one can develop dangerous habits in all of these three areas that can have disastrous ramifications. People spend, save, and invest on a daily basis, and, without a proper understanding of how to handle one’s personal finances or how the financial markets work, the American economy and its participating members are left without a buoy...
...order to reengage the American public, the Obama administration needs to devise a line of communication to verbalize how the performance of the economy is directly affecting their lives. Some call it “kitchen table economics” or “economics light.” The constant bombardment of dreary economic news loaded with obscure facts, numbers, and forecasts leaves the average American unable to digest what can be useful information...