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...sonnet entitled "Ode to the Yale Weekend," concluding with the following lines: "Hence we won the game, in a dazzling feat / And soon, all of Yale was thowing up in the street." An e-mail I wrote to Marty Feldstein, that he decrease his course's opportunity costs by renaming Ec 10 Sections "Ections" and the colloquially-named Marty Feldstein articles, "Marticles." (Luckily, he was amused.) My 1997 Datamatch results. (I had been hopeful--my parents met through it without even attending Harvard--but destiny awaited me elsewhere.) A quote from a student in a class I shopped that made...
...this assumes, of course, that financial-market investments will continue to provide an attractive return. That seems reasonable, at least in the long run. Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, calculates that a portfolio 60% of which is invested in stocks and 40% in bonds would grow on average 5.5% a year. That represents the actual average from the end of World War II until today, minus an allowance for administrative costs. By contrast, the special Treasury bonds that, by law, Social Security must now buy with any spare cash it has may yield on average...
...Senate bill written by Democrats Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and Robert Kerrey of Nebraska would allow workers to divert 2% into investment accounts but would lower guaranteed benefits to what could be financed out of the remaining 10.4%. Feldstein has an even better idea: keep present tax and benefit rates but have the government deposit into individual accounts an additional 2% of each worker's earnings, up to the prescribed annual taxable limit. On retirement the worker would repay Uncle Sam $3 of every $4 he or she had in the account. Taxpayers under this scheme might earn...
...noon today, Sanders Theatre should be unusually packed for the final lecture of Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics." Why? Because today, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 will answer students' questions during class. Unfortunately, the questions won't be as entertaining as they could be. Students were required to pre-submit their questions so that the Ec-10 office could choose among the queries...
...that's not to say there aren't real advantages to Harvard's academic life. You might not be able to track down Af-Am guru Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. or former Reagan economic boss Martin S. Feldstein '61 in person, but you can sit in on their lectures. (Though why you'd want to sit in on Marty's lectures is beyond...