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Krugman added that he thought that only a stimulus plan 50 percent bigger than the one proposed by the administration of President Barack Obama could rectify the self-reinforcing nature of the current economic crisis...
...solve the current economic problem, the government must be willing to run up a 40 percent budget deficit, Krugman said...
Gergen poked fun at the current stimulus bill, stating that the proposal’s approval rating is 20 percent lower than that of Obama himself...
...mail lists for those with extra. Within minutes, some students offered up their tickets for free, at face value, or a little above. However, these benevolent e-mails were immediately followed by those from “entrepreneurial” students, who offered their tickets at a few hundred percent above face value. In some cases they even set up bidding wars, either officially on eBay or through the abbreviation OBO—“Or Better Offer.” These students are not entrepreneurs; they are extortionists...
...Yale student groups that co-hosted the conference first connected through a nationwide campaign against investment in HEI Hotels and Resorts, a private equity company that buys and sells hotels. The company—which faces ongoing labor disputes for mistreatment of its workers—draws 80 percent of its funding from endowments, including those of Harvard and Yale. “HEI is a piece of evidence, but the broader picture is responsibility for the whole endowment. [Bowman] put together this conference with some help from us basically to just train students in research methods...