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...keep falling. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Economy.com, believes the free-fall might be slowing: "I think the dollar is near a bottom via the Euro, pound and Canadian dollar. Foreign exchange markets are already pricing in a very weak if not recessionary U.S. economy and substantial Fed easing." And while he thinks the dollar still has further to go in relation to the Chinese Yuan and other Asian currencies - he predicts another 5% to 7.5% until early in the next decade, when he thinks the Chinese-U.S. trade balance will stabilize - jumping into the Forex probably...
...Harris fed sophomore Pat Magnerelli on the block and the second-year forward banged in the layup to give Harvard a 53-51 lead with 3:20 to play...
Those who remember Duran Duran usually remember the hair, frosted to 1980s-excess perfection. Or maybe the videos, replete with scantily-clad, poorly-fed European models. Of course, there were also the hits: “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Girls on Film,” and “Rio.” For the last decade, however, most conversational references made to Duran Duran have been ironic and anachronistic. The band’s been branded as a Live-Aid relic, the forgotten child of the first MTV audience. Those mantles...
...majority of my fellow Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics” veterans, I must already sound truly irrational, even heretical. Because we have been force-fed the message that our world today progresses more rapidly than ever thanks to open markets, free trade, and liberated entrepreneurs, any mention of an anti-capitalist agenda is likely to be dismissed with derision. Yet now, arguably more urgently than ever, it is incumbent upon us to cast off the shackles of that theology of free-market liberation and come to terms with the actual dynamics of the world...
...have been passed over for Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2005, but five undergraduates on Tuesday won first place in the national Federal Reserve Challenge Competition—the first time that Harvard has ever made it to the finals, let alone taken the top prize. The Harvard Fed Challenge Team beat out the SUNY Geneseo team, who came in second, and the three-time returning champions from Northwestern University, who finished third. The Harvard team—who won the competition by arguing for their decision to hold the Federal Funds rate constant—was awarded...