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In the short term, that may be a necessary price to pay to pump life into the economy, but the effects of deleveraging on Wall Street and Main Street still threaten the steepest recession in the U.S. since the early 1980s, when unemployment peaked at 10.8% in 1982. Here's...
“Why does anyone fight?” It’s a question as old as warfare. With the assistance of arward-winning playwright Ellen McLaughlin, students at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre have been tackling this question, drawing on extensive...
But after June 30, commodities markets dropped precipitously, by almost 30 percent, from their all-time highs—according to Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index—potentially reversing some endowment gains. Much of this was due to a substantial fall in the price of oil, which peaked at...
Irrational Exuberance may have come out just as the market peaked in 2000, for example, but Shiller had actually begun voicing his worries about high stock prices years before. Fed Chairman Greenspan got an earful from the economist a few days before making his "irrational exuberance" speech in 1996 suggesting...
Grappling with rising inflation at a time of weakening expansion is a challenge for the European Central Bank, too. Figures released on August 6, for instance, showed a shocking 2.9% fall in German manufacturing orders in June. The country, fuelled by a booming market for its exports, has lately helped...