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...DIED. Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Jewish former law student who fled Mussolini's regime in 1938, he was best known for his influential theories on the way people save money. Previously it was widely assumed that only the rich saved; he proposed that people at all income levels save money and spend...
...best performers so far this year. Foreign investors have rushed in, becoming net buyers of Japanese stocks for 22 consecutive weeks through mid-September, pumping just under $48 billion into the market since May. "It has been such a dramatic change in investor psychology," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JP Morgan in Tokyo. But considering Japan's history of false-start recoveries over the past decade, the nagging question remains: Is this rebound for real...
Paul Krugman came to The New York Times’ op-ed page as an economist, not a liberal guru. But try telling that to the enthusiastic crowd who packed the pews of Cambridge’s First Parish Church last Friday, eager to see the man described by the National Review Online’s Donald Luskin as “America’s most dangerous liberal pundit...
Thus we return, defeated, to the ranks of the economist. The ease of illegal downloading has exacted a severe toll on the music industry: according to the Globe, worldwide CD sales are projected to fall as much as 15% this year. Universal Music Group, recognizing the futility of litigation, is slashing CD prices from $18.98 to $12.98 beginning October 1. Apparently, the RIAA’s monopoly on pop music has ended and the consumer has finally taken...
Outside First Parish Church, a number of people waited in line for the moment to listen to the columnist, Princeton professor and liberal economist...