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...January 12, NPR broadcast an interview given by the neoconservative economist N. Gregory Mankiw, the former chair of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors and professor at Harvard University. I agree with Dr. Mankiw??s support for free trade and his expression of disappointment that the Republican-controlled Congress did not reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, most of his ideas are precisely what led to our country’s current economic disaster...
...10—Obama’s personal basketball trainer. Dunking on Michelle gets old after a while. 7. Steven Pinker—Hairdresser. 8. Derek M. Flanzraich ’10 —Court jester. Hosts the official Obama Family YouTube videos. 9. N. Gregory Mankiw??Obama’s charisma/public appearances coach. 10. Matthew M. Di Pasquale ’09—Photographer. Hoped to publish a monthly family newsletter, but everyone keeps claiming to be “too busy” or “too creeped out” to actually...
...close friend of the Romers who was David’s best man at their wedding. “As I told The Crimson in May, I was very eager to have her come, and I was looking forward to having her as a colleague.” Mankiw??s sentiments were echoed by Frankel—Romer’s former colleague and friend at Berkeley—who added that not hiring Romer was “a big mistake” on Harvard’s part. Romer will join the ranks of Obama?...
...levels” of sharing: group sharing, college sharing, and world sharing. Magliozzi, for one, hopes students will choose to share their information with the world. One of his goals is to use the internet to connect and link different texts and lectures; ideally, students reading about Mankiw??s lecture on marginal utility can click on a link that brings them to a Brown professor’s take...
...such as the United States to lend money to certain banks in developing countries. Lenders don’t receive any interest on their loans, so this type of funding is less expensive than borrowing from a commercial bank or an NGO. Any student who has taken N. Gregory Mankiw??s course or read his textbook can tell you that if you allow markets to operate freely, new firms will enter the market and drive down profits and prices until supply equals demand. Even in developing countries today, we see that principle in action as new banks...