Word: economist
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...drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach. Yale law professor Ian Ayres and Stanford economist Jeremy Bulow proposed last year in an article in the Stanford Law Review that donors should be allowed to give as much money as they want, with one new rule: the money would come in through a blind trust, so the candidate could not find out who gave it. Just...
Shrinking dividend yields. Soaring price-to-earnings ratios. Bloated book values. Today that's so much hooey. The Dow is about to triple, argues a soon-to-be-released tract for our times--Dow 36,000 by journalist James Glassman and economist Kevin Hassett...
...legalization of abortion in the early '70s prevented a significant number of would-be criminals from coming of age in the 1990s, according to a controversial study, "Legalized Abortion and Crime," by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and Stanford University law professor John Donohue III. They suggest that the rise in abortions after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade may explain as much as half the overall decrease in crime from 1991 to 1997. Says Donohue: "In 1981 a third of all pregnancies ended in abortion. That social phenomenon will have a large repercussion...
...FUTURES Worried your nest egg won't be big enough? A free online service will forecast the long-term value of your 401(k). After years of consulting for big pension funds, Nobel-prizewinning economist Bill Sharpe packaged his simulation software into the easy-to-use www.financialengines.com If you want to pay $14.95 a quarter, the service will advise you on how to improve your asset allocation. Compare its forecasts with ones from www.fplanauditors.com which uses historical data to evaluate all your assets...
Bharrat Jagdeo: The 35-year-old economist became President of Guyana last week...