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...under the new law, and owners with six or fewer units could file for exemptions if they have trouble meeting maintenance costs. Therefore, only those people wealthy enough to own large properties will have to take a cut in their enormous profits. It doesn’t take an economist to realize what an absurdly large amount of money real estate moguls have made off of the housing boom and see that they are shaking in their boots at the thought of a pay cut, even to the point of bringing in lawyers who unsuccessfully tried to keep the measure...
Back in Mrs. Keenan’s first-grade class, the world-renowned economist begins with the basics...
Summers declined to give examples of how the University plans to use its “convening power” or how it intends to encourage further public health research, although he said he was considering recruiting a number of major health experts. Former Harvard economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, a noted global health expert, was lured away to Columbia University last year...
...those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following the maxim of that great economist P.T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute, satisfying a market they have themselves created. Halloween Express, a Kentucky-based chain, now has some 70 franchised stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes...
That's a simplistic, if inaccurate, charge. Yet those historical grievances, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, are something foreign investors have too quickly forgotten--not just in Peru but throughout Latin America, where politics are turning sharply leftward after the capitalist reforms of the '90s left more of the region in poverty...