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Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Baker professor of economics and one-time top White House economic adviser, criticized America’s “strong dollar?? policy at a convention of macroeconomic and financial experts last weekend. “We clearly need a more competitive dollar,” he said, according to reports of his remarks. “The dollar is still very high—too high to be sustained.” In a sit-down interview yesterday, Feldstein cautioned that the dollar??s strength, along with...
...investing in the future.”Sullivan adds that he believes the money the city collects in taxes is well spent.“We watch the budget in a way that people actually get something in exchange for their tax dollars. People are getting value in that dollar??we’re not wasting it,” he says.The mayor includes zoning laws that improve the environment and measures that make housing more affordable among his other accomplishments in office.Sullivan also says that the city’s relations with Harvard have improved under...
Coleman also said that as a result of the dollar??s weakness in international markets, the Library’s acquisition of materials abroad has become considerably more expensive. The cost of materials from Europe rose by 41 percent between 2000 and 2004, according to a June 2004 letter from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Library Committee to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...
...Bush administration has moved from strong words to pleas in attempts to make the Chinese revalue the Yuan as the U.S. dollar??s value has slid, and the only substantial victory seems to be a free trade deal with Australia to which the agricultural lobby of the U.S. was brought kicking and screaming to the table, such that the deal took nine months longer to bring forth. With that kind of resistance, a free trade deal with a larger country does not look promising...
...restraint, two roommates joined me for a friendly game on a Wednesday night. So what if we don’t have a fourth? Good way to kill an hour, right? The three of us huddled around a ratty little Habitat for Humanity ottoman we bought for a dollar??which is how much I have left in chips after just ten minutes of play...