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...presidency, will lead to enough discussion of Israel and Palestine in the Harvard community so that more of us feel able to take positions. With that in mind, I will use my space to present a factual picture one would think controversial, but which surprisingly is a matter of consensus of “informed observers...
...From his hard-edged Inaugural vow that "our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, has surely passed" to his frequent promise of smarter government, Obama has reflected a national consensus - which seems to exclude only the 535 sitting lawmakers - that the old way stinks. And beyond his rhetorical insistence on transparency and reform, Obama has invited Republicans to the party - first a cocktail party, next a Super Bowl party - as though he cares about what they think and where they disagree with him. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...
...government reported that fourth quarter GDP contracted at an annual rate of 3.8%. That does not approach the 7.8% in the second quarter of 1980 or the 10.4% post-war record set in the first quarter of 1958. The consensus estimate among analysts was for a 5.4% drop...
...early stint in the economic back room of the Reagan White House and helped calm the markets during various mini-crises during the go-go 1990s. But Summers has long identified himself as a Democrat and has often leaned toward the left edge of the centrist economic consensus that has driven our recent financial history. "His solutions tend to be government-led, progressive structuring of the market for what he perceives as the greater social good," explains the new Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who was an Under Secretary for Summers during the Clinton Administration. "But he is also a firm...
...from foreigners and spend it on a mile-long list of pork-barrel projects that we don't immediately need (or else we would have found another way to pay for them) and hope this gets us out of the recession. Did I miss something? There is a growing consensus among historians and economists that World War II, not the New Deal, got us out of the Depression. Stimulus won't solve the fundamental economic problems of this country: decades of low savings coupled with ravenous consumption, fueled by cheap credit, all of which we are now paying the piper...