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Rubin, 62, currently chairs the Wall Street giant Citigroup, and is the third consecutive economist to serve as Commencement Day speaker. In 1999 Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan spoke, and last year Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen gave the address...
...significantly increased their real income during the Reagan era, and the poor slipped further behind. After adjustment for inflation, the national standard of living has actually fallen since 1973; the real average hourly pay for U.S. workers has gone from $8.55 then to $7.54 today. Says Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution: ''Americans are not becoming pessimistic. They are becoming realistic. It is right to think of cutting back...
...other feature we're debuting this week is Global Agenda, Michael Elliott's new weekly column. Elliott, who lives in New York, is one of the great journalistic talents of our time, having held top jobs at the Economist, Newsweek and, most recently, eCountries. Over the years he has also served as a law professor, a civil servant and a TV documentary filmmaker. The column will focus on the global economy and how it's changing all of our lives. This week's effort starts with news of a recent catamaran circumnavigation and ends up making some insightful observations about...
...Global Agenda, a new weekly column by former Economist and Newsweek editor Michael Elliott...
Stats like that give bullish analysts plenty to talk about. "The economy will be picking up significantly by the fourth quarter," says Bruce Steinberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch. "Corporate earnings should be picking up at the same time, and the stock market, because it looks to the future, is going to be going up well in advance of that. I really think sometime in the spring the market will turn around...