Word: feds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DeLong and other friends of Summers speculate that the University president might be persuaded to leave Cambridge behind if he were offered the Fed chairmanship. But the ironic consequence of this year’s flap over Summers’ leadership is that—by dashing his own Fed prospects—Summers might have lengthened his tenure at Harvard...
Greenspan’s current four-year term as Fed chair doesn’t expire until January 2006—and in any event, Summers almost certainly would not be in the running for the post under a Republican president. Any impact that Summers’ January remarks might have on his Fed chair chances won’t become apparent until early 2010—and then only if the Democratic Party wrests control of the White House from the GOP in the ’08 race...
...looking into the crystal ball, Fed watchers wonder whether Summers would still be a viable candidate for the chairmanship a half decade down the road...
...most critical qualities in a Fed chair is to think about how your remarks are going to be heard by other people,” says Washington Post economics correspondent Nell Henderson ’80, who is also a Crimson editor. “It would be disastrous for you to say something that was flippant or ill-informed or facetious and have the markets crash...
...also the objective that motivates any journalist. A reporter’s best work is not fed to them through press releases. It stems from their desire to answer their own questions, such as why some schools systems fail and others succeed, or why everybody is buying an iPod. A good journalist presents a new angle to a problem that some never knew existed...