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Calling the current economic downturn the “worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” Jeffrey A. Frankel, a Kennedy School professor in capital formation and growth, warned against a potential long-term depression, such as the one that Japan experienced in the 1990s...
...Japan's motives are not entirely altruistic. The economic rise of China, India and other countries means resource-poor Japan faces increasing competition for commodities such as oil and metals. Foreign aid is a way to cement relationships with potential trade partners. Development experts such as Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the United Nation's Secretary General on development goals, say that China is providing billions of dollars each year to Africa, although no one knows the official figure. Japan's trade with Africa, about $25 billion, is about one third of China's trade with the continent. Tokyo...
...Spain. Senator Barack Obama, by contrast, was calm and reassuring, meeting with economic grownups and continuing his longtime advocacy of the kind of realistic regulations that might have helped prevent the financial catastrophe we find ourselves in. If ever there was a week the Democrats won, this was it. Jeffrey J. Mariotte, DOUGLAS, ARIZ...
...Kennedy Street in 1932. When he announced that he was planning to sell the store earlier this year, Kramer said that it was important that he sell the store to people who would maintain its unique character—something he said that he found in the new owners, Jeffrey Mayersohn ’73 and Linda Seamonson of Wellesley, Mass...
...self-worth in them. He wrote that the biggest failure of elite education is that it is self-perpetuating, preventing the American intelligentsia from evolving. Despite being promoted as a debate, after briefly introducing themselves, the two undergraduates—Elise X. Liu ’11 and Jeffrey J. Phaneuf ’10—ceded the floor to Deresiewicz, who spoke for around 40 minutes on the shortcomings of elite education. “I’m not against the existence of the elite,” Deresiewicz said. “We want the best...