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According to a comprehensive study done this year by the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia claimed the highest national per capita rate of adult obesity, overtaking the United States. This begs the question: what has fueled the transformation of skinny, marsupial-enthusiast surfers with great accents into unappealing couch potatoes? My very scientific answer: great television. I can’t help but think that, in a country with more outdoor adventures than even the guy from “Man vs. Wild” can handle, there must be something compelling keeping Aussies indoors and clutching sweaty...
...days after the U.S. economy was officially declared to be in recession, five individuals proposed to members of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. that they cut the federal interest rate by half a percent. The advisers were not world-renowned economists but rather members of the Harvard College Fed Challenge Team...
...students recommended that the Federal Reserve lower its rate to .5 percent from its already historically low 1 percent...
According to team president Stephanie H. Lo ’10, the Harvard squad suggested that the Fed lower the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) rate and that the CPFF take trade credits as collateral...
Using trade credits for collateral “is an extremely novel idea,” Lo said. “Everyone talks about the Fed funds rate...and I think they were looking for a deeper understanding of the economy...