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Take Mickey Feldstein's Foolproof Pawnshop Index. Feldstein keeps a close watch on the percentage of pawned items that are eventually redeemed at his Lincoln Loan Bank & Jewelers in Chicago. In 1966, when the economy was throbbing, Feldstein's redemption rate was 90%. In December of 1970, the Commerce Department's average of twelve leading indicators was pointing up unmistakably, signaling a big rebound in business. Feldstein knew better; his redemption rate the month before was only 60%, and the Commerce Department rebound never came. Today Feldstein sees good times ahead. His redemption rate is a brisk...
Francis Birch, Geological Sciences Martin Feldstein, Economics University Professor Applied Mathematics Werner Stumm, Engineering
...purpose of the grant, Feldstein said, was to encourage graduate students in economics to choose public health as a field of study. Only five or six students in the past five years, he said, have chosen health care as their economics doctoral topics...
Hospital costs are rising at a rate of 15 per cent a year, Feldstein said, and "Where the money is going is not at all clear...
...Feldstein said that the economics of medicine has been largely neglected by educators. Harvard, he said, is "unusually strong" with several experts in the field, such as John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, and Rashi Fein, professor of the Economics of Medicine at the School of Public Health...