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...months, even though overall consumer prices have jumped a more troublesome 4.7% in that period. The big fear is that the core rate will lift as companies raise prices to offset the higher prices they pay for energy. "Inevitably, we'll get some pass-through," says James O'Sullivan, economist at the brokerage UBS. Indeed, Clorox, Marriott, Carnival, Deere and FedEx have already raised or said they would raise prices because of the high cost of fuel...
...economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words: “Boom, bust, boom, bust.” In reference to the number of people in the room and a dissipating pessimism...
...extraordinary resource for the University as we deepen our commitment to promoting development around the world,” Summers said in a statement yesterday. The president was far less supportive a year and a half ago, when he considered dissolving the center, which was established in 1998 by economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, who later left for a plum post at Columbia University...
When Hugo Chávez assumed the presidency in 1998, he asked the economist to serve in his administration, but Hausmann declined, according to El Nacional, a Venezuelan daily newspaper. Since then, Hausmann has emerged as a vehement critic of Ch?...
...September 2004, Hausmann and MIT economist Roberto Rigobon published a study concluding that the previous month’s Venezuelan referendum, in which Chávez survived a presidential recall, was almost certainly fraudulent. The study cast doubt on a previous election audit conducted by the Carter Center, a human-rights group founded by former President Carter...