Word: inflationitis
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Alas, there's no proven link between more spending and better care. The good news is that parts of the country provide care at a low cost, so there's potential for gigantic savings if the rest of the U.S. could imitate them. One Dartmouth study found that if nationwide...
Not even generosity is recession-proof. According to Giving USA Foundation, charitable giving dropped 5.7% in inflation-adjusted dollars last year--the worst plunge in 50 years. Given the roller-coaster stock market and rising unemployment, however, some experts expressed surprise that the fall wasn't more precipitous.
Well, maybe not the whole edifice. For all its flaws, Fisher's economic approach delivered genuinely important insights. He proposed in 1911 that the government issue inflation-linked bonds; in 1997, the Treasury Department finally got around to doing so. If anybody in power in Washington had been willing to...
According to Harvard's year-end financial report from 2008, HMC had over $7 billion invested in fixed-income assets as of June 30. Those assets included nearly $2 billion worth of domestic bonds—which had produced returns of 16.1 percent for that fiscal year, beating the HMC...
Defining the parameters of this new normal is not something that can be done with pinpoint precision. I started paying attention to the news (and subscribing to TIME) during another period of economic turmoil, the late 1970s, and soon became convinced that I would never know a world in which...